His words shock in a raw, disturbing style.' - Boston Globe, Documents the maddening psychological and physical torment of a life awaiting execution inside Huntingdon County Prison.

He has become one of America's most controversial and eloquent death row prisoners.' - New York Daily News 'Presents a bracing challenge to complacent views about crime, race, and incarceration.' - Publishers Weekly 'Documents the maddening psychological and physical torment of a life awaiting execution inside Huntingdon County Prison. In this decade when building prisons and increasing the use of the death penalty have become popular responses to crime, Abu-Jamal's perspective is worth reading.' - Philadelphia Inquirer 'A scathing indictment of this country's justice system from a man about to receive it's ultimate punishment. Mumia Abu-Jamal's eloquent, scholarly, urgent dispatches teach us that we ignore those connections at our own peril.' - Adrienne Rich 'Abu-Jamal is an articulate voice at the far side of this country's great racial divide. It rings so true because he has not overcome.' - LA Weekly 'Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail.' - Boston Globe 'We aren't supposed to feel connected with people 'inside'-least of all those on Death Row.

Doctorow 'An important book takes us into the bowels of hell.Abu-Jamal offers expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system.His writings are dangerous.' - Village Voice 'Brilliant in its specificity and imperative, Mumia Abu-Jamal's work is about why multitudes of people don't overcome. You cannot read it and remain unmoved.' - E.L. Mumia Abu-Jamal's eloquent, scholarly, urgent dispatches teach us that we ignore those connections at our own peril., 'A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard.' - Alice Walker 'A tough, true, timely book. He has become one of America's most controversial and eloquent death row prisoners., We aren't supposed to feel connected with people 'inside'-least of all those on Death Row. In this decade when building prisons and increasing the use of the death penalty have become popular responses to crime, Abu-Jamal's perspective is worth reading., A scathing indictment of this country's justice system from a man about to receive it's ultimate punishment. Abu-Jamal is an articulate voice at the far side of this country's great racial divide.

Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal