 On December 7, 2011, District Attorney of Philadelphia R. Seth Williams announced that prosecutors, with the support of the victim's family, would no longer seek the death penalty for Abu-Jamal and would accept a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.This sentence was reaffirmed by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on July 9, 2013.After the press conference on the sentence, widow Maureen Faulkner said that she did not want to relive the trauma of another trial.