 Mumia Abu @-@ Jamal ( born Wesley Cook April 24 , 1954 ) is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner . His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment without parole . 
 Mumia Abu @-@ Jamal ( born Wesley Cook April 24 , 1954 ) <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a convicted murderer <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a>was sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner . His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment without parole . 
Mumia Abu @-@ Jamal ( born Wesley Cook April 24 , 1954 ) a convicted murderer was sentenced to death in 1982 for da 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner . His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment w/o parole .