(Fox News) A third-grade New Jersey teacher has been fired after she had her students write "get well" letters to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Marylin Zuniga instructed her Forest Street Elementary School students to write the letters to Abu-Jamal, who has been hospitalized. He is serving a life sentence for the 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia officer Daniel Faulkner.
A school board Wednesday voted to fire Zuniga, who had been suspended with pay since the incident.
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