"Eighteen years after the slaying, Arnold Beverly claimed that, "wearing a green (camouflage) army jacket", he had run across the street and shot Daniel Faulkner as part of a contract killing because Faulkner was interfering with graft and payoff to corrupt police"

Abu-Jamal decided not to use Beverly because Abu-Jamal was "far too honorable to propagate a lie upon which to build a case for his freedom.

"Cynthia White either died in 1992 or disappeared, and it was subsequently alleged that she falsified her testimony."

Cynthia White, a prostitute, claimed to see a man emerge from a nearby parking lot and shoot Faulkner.

"Kenneth Pate, a stepbrother of Priscilla Durham who was imprisoned with Abu-Jamal on other charges"

Abu-Jamal's brother, William Cook, did not testify or make any statement until 2001 when he claimed that he had not seen who had shot Faulkner.

In his version of events, detailed in a sworn statement almost 20 years afterwards, Abu-Jamal claimed that he was sitting in his cab across the street when he heard shouting, then saw a police vehicle, then heard the sound of gunshots. Upon seeing his brother appearing disoriented across the street, Abu-Jamal ran to him from the parking lot and was shot by a police officer. The statement includes no mention of the gun that was found nearby him at the crime scene nor the corresponding firearms shoulder holster he was found to be wearing at the time of his arrest.

He continues to write a Saturday weekly column for the German language Marxist newspaper "junge Welt".

In October 2002, he was conferred honorary membership of the Berlin-based Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists and Antifascist Groups (VVN-BdA).