Kevin Cooper: I Was Four Hours Away From Execution By Kevin Cooper, Contributing Writer. Originally posted on Prison Writers Four hours away from execution on death row. From December 17, 2003, to February 9, 2004, the prison guards and administration at this modern-day plantation changed me, rearranged me, oppressed me, regressed me, repressed me, depressed me, and […]
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Regarding Kamala Harris In a country where the criminal justice system for the most part is anything but just, I speak to you from experience of 40-plus years of being denied constitutional rights that I, as an American citizen, am told on paper I am entitled to receive but was denied. This includes being denied
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Originally posted on Scheerpost.com on Aug 2, 2024 The Day the Handcuffs Came Off: From Death Row to Being Seen as Human By Kevin Cooper Every person unlucky enough to be sentenced to death has often dreamed about getting off death row, especially those who have spent decades as a condemned person living in an
Join us for “(Un)Equal Under the Law: Extreme Sentencing and Racial Justice in California” When: Thursday, March 14th, 5:30pm (doors open at 5pm) Where: Jack Adams Hall, San Francisco State University Who: Please RSVP bit.ly/RJA4KC Featuring, Kevin Cooper, who will call in to discuss the ongoing fight for his life, justice and freedom while surviving California’s death row for nearly 40
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By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, but how you play the game that matters.” That’s what my people are often told. But we are not told that this so-called game is rigged, and it’s rigged against us even before we are born. This “game” is life in
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This interview was originally published on January 17, 2024 in Death Penalty Focus’s January newsletter. In a phone interview from the 48-square-foot cell on San Quentin’s death row, where he has lived since he was sentenced to death in 1985, Kevin Cooper pointed out that this is the second time the American Bar Association has
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On October 26, 2023, the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP wrote a rebuttal in response to the Special Counsel’s January 13, 2023 report upholding the conviction of their client Kevin Cooper. A focus of the rebuttal was that all law enforcement files were not turned over to the Special Counsel during their investigation, despite
ABA President, Mary Smith, urges Governor Newsom to order “additional investigation, specifically as it relates to law enforcement records” that were never obtained by the Special Counsel assigned by the Governor to investigate Mr. Cooper’s claims of innocence. Read the San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting here: ABA says Kevin Cooper prosecutors withheld evidence in case of death
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Geri Silva interviewed Kevin Cooper and Jane Dorotik on her radio show, Think Outside the Cage on December 10, 2023. You can listen to the interview by going to KPFK archives https://www.kpfk.org/archives/ and selecting Think Outside the Cage and then clicking play on the December 10th episode.
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