Mumia Abu-Jamal is serving a life sentence for the 1981 shooting that took the life of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal was invited to speak by the graduating class of Goddard College, the school he had attended. Abu-Jamal delivered a pre-recorded commencement speech that made headlines. “An outcry of criticism from victims, law enforcement, and even the state legislature— not for its content, but for no other reason than Abu-Jamal’s words had been provided for public consumption” (Zoukis, 2015). ‘On October 16, 2014, less than two weeks after Abu-Jamal delivered the commencement speech, the Pennsylvania legislature passed the Revictimization Act, also known as the ‘Silencing Act.’ The bill was quickly signed into
