I'm as Giddy as a Schoolgirl on Prom Night!!!!

To Maureen Faulkner and her extended "family";

First, Maureen, you are a hero to all of us who live in the Delaware Valley and have been closely following this case for years.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to place the face of this bast&^d on my blog and report that final justice is one step closer for Daniel Faulkner.

My hope and wish for you is that justice is swift and this piece if human waste is finally eradicated from God's green earth. I, personally, volunteer to push the button, pull the trigger, throw the switch-anything it takes to end the life of this fiend.

May Danny soon be able to rest in peace. I wish much peace to the Faulkners and their extended "family". You all deserve it.

Bill Shaw

Wesley Cook Loses Legal Battle
(note: edits made by your humble blogmeister)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ― Pennsylvania's highest appeals court has rejected a request by convicted killer Mumia Abu-Jamal Wesley Cook for a hearing into his claims that witnesses in his case perjured themselves.

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a unanimous ruling saying the former Black Panther and radio reporter waited too long to file a post-conviction appeal in the matter.

Abu-Jamal Cook was convicted of shooting to death Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. A federal judge in 2001 overturned Abu-Jamal Cook's death sentence but upheld his conviction.

Abu-Jamal Cook claims an eyewitness named Cynthia White once told a fellow inmate that she testified against Abu-Jamal Cook because police threatened her. White died in 1992. He also claims a security guard at the hospital where he was treated for a gunshot wound after the killing -- and who testified he confessed to her -- told a man more than 20 years ago she was part of the police's "brotherhood."

His case has attracted international notoriety. A separate appeal in the case, regarding claims of racial bias and faulty jury instructions, is pending before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prosecutors are seeking to have the death penalty reinstated.