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Justice Department letter reveals unjust application of law.
The Justices Department's letter plus the NCRRC's response and appeal to President Clinton.
In the United States, courtroom trials are supposed to be meaningful, with a judge earning respect for fairness before jurors and spectators. Judges should sentence on the basis of the indictment and the trial record; not based on untried, untested and unchecked "out of court" information. However, this is exactly what happened in the sentencing of the Rosenbergs !
        This explains why around the world, concerned citizens protested  Judge Kaufman's death sentences, and his total absence of fairness. The world understood, but not the United States, which was caught up in McCarthysm; the paranoia and hysteria generated by the anti-communistic frenzy of the late 40's and the 50's. 
        One would expect the Justice Department of today to clearly recognize the unjust nature of Judge Kaufman's sentences. However, examination of the above-mentioned letter demonstrates that our government's thinking is still firmly entrenched in the cold war consciousness of those earlier times.

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Real spies for the USSR do not implicate Rosenbergs.
In 1997, Aldrich Ames, American CIA operative, was arrested, tried, declared "guilty," and imprisoned for passing highly sensitive information to the USSR. In cross-examination Ames did not implicate the Rosenbergs in any way.
        Also in 1997, the book "Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy" by Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel, was published by Times Book Corp., NYC. This book documents the role of the brilliant American physicist Theodore Hall and other scientists who gave vital information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In this book, Theodore Hall makes no reference to any complicity by the Rosenbergs in his or any other espionage activities of which he was aware.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal case strikes blow against Capital Punishment.
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania's death row for close to 20 years and confined 23 hours daily in a tiny cell at State Correctional Institute Greene in Waynesburg, Pa. In 1982, Abu-Jamal was convicted of shooting officer Daniel Faulkner.  This allegedly occurred during the early-morning hours of December 9, 1981, after the officer pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother in a downtown traffic stop.
        Mumia has always maintained that he is innocent. In fact, in a 1999 affidavit, Arnold Beverly has confessed that he was hired by the mob to kill Faulkner because the officer had interfered with mob payoffs to police.
        In a recent ruling (Dec. 18, 2001) to have the case overthrown, Federal Judge William Yohn, Jr. stated that the confession by Beverly was not sufficient to have the conviction overturned. However, he did rule that the sentencing aspect of the original trial was invalid and that the death sentence no longer applies. He ordered the state of Pennsylvania to hold a new hearing within 180 days. If the state refuses in this time period, Judge Yohn said that he would impose a life sentence without parole on Mumia. This would be a gross injustice. We believe that Yohn's reasoning is incorrect and that Mumia deserves to have the entire case reviewed and overturned.
        While it appears that Yohn's decision, at minimum, would remove the execution threat from Mumia's case, we cannot take this for granted. The prosecution has stated that they will appeal Yohn's decision - THEY WANT TO KILL MUMIA. To find out more about this case you can go to http://www.freemumia.org