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From their cells on Virginia's death row, the inmates can hear Percy Walton laughing.

His chuckles, the inmates say, come from nowhere, and are often mixed with shouts and incoherent babbling. He talks back to voices only he can hear. He once told a psychiatrist he plans to go to Burger King - after he is executed.

Sentenced to death in 1989 for a murder that he insists he did not commit, Mirza-Tahir Hussain, then 19, from Leeds, spent the next 17 years locked up with some of Pakistan's most violent criminals. It was, he told The Times, "sheer hell".

Inmates on Rawalpindi's death row regularly attacked each other, he said. They dealt in drugs. Many had home-made knives. Some younger inmates were sexually assaulted. The authorities always put more than two prisoners in a cell so there was someone to break up fights. The quieter prisoners banded together to protect themselves but "we always feared for our safety", Mr Hussain said.

It's been 25 years since Officer Daniel Faulkner was slain. He and the man convicted have supporters meeting this week.

By Joseph A. Gambardello, Philadelphia Inquirer

Google "Mumia Abu-Jamal" and you'll get more than 1 million hits for sites containing his name. For "Police Officer Daniel Faulkner," it's only 22,800.