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Whistleblowers Conscientious Objectors & Military Resisters Civil Disobedience & Plowshares Political Prisoners in Exile Death-Row Political Prisoners Hunger Strikers Wrongfully Convicted / COINTELPRO Frame-Ups Recently Released Political Prisoners Elder Political Prisoners
DEATH-ROW POLITICAL PRISONERS
Political prisoners who were sentenced to death and either had the sentence overturned, commuted, or carried out. Includes Mumia Abu-Jamal (death sentence 1982; commuted to life in 2011), Sacco and Vanzetti (executed 1927), the Rosenbergs (executed 1953), Joe Hill (executed 1915), and Albert Parsons / August Spies / Adolph Fischer / George Engel (Haymarket martyrs, executed 1887).