Why Is Mumia Still Alive?

Funny you should ask the question. Twenty-five years later, and justice still has not been served.

Maureen Faulkner says she has spent half her life seeking peace.

She is 50 now, and it was 25 years ago today that her husband of one year, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, was shot dead on a Center City street, a crime for which Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death.

Yesterday, Maureen Faulkner hosted a luncheon at the Union League to keep her husband's memory alive and to honor District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham for steadfastly challenging Abu-Jamal's many appeals.

Abu-Jamal's name was never mentioned at the luncheon.

Afterward, Faulkner, who never remarried and now lives in California, said she had spent "half my life" returning to Philadelphia for the appeals.

"I wish that some day, I can have closure and some peace in my life from this," she said, vowing at the same time to not stop "fighting to have justice for Danny."