Originally posted on: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/thanksgiving-death-row/ Thanksgiving on Death Row The author has been in San Quentin since 1985 and is fighting to prevent the state of California from killing him for a murder he says he did not commit. Editor’s note: Kevin Cooper was convicted of a 1983 quadruple murder in a trial in which evidence […]

The Murder of Kevin Cooper Against the Current, No. 190, September/October 2017Originally published at https://againstthecurrent.org/atc190/p5074/ AS I WRITE this to you, I am in a 4 1/2 by 11 foot long cage, with two feet between the side of the bed and the wall for me to walk in. I have been in a cage

General George Armstrong Custer(1839-1876) paid the ultimate price for the sins of certain white people of his time who committed damn near every type of crime against humanity upon the indigenous peoples of this country. So much so that many different tribes of indigenous peoples came together, some who were sworn enemies, to fight and

Being born in America for some people, or for a certain group of people, isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Especially when one can end up in jail, or prison, or the graveyard, simply for being who you are, as you were born. Just sitting in your car reading a book and minding

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Execute/Executions; means to carry out fully; put completely into effect; to do what is called for (as by the law); to put to death in accordance with a legal sentence; to produce by, carry out by design; to do what is needed to give validity to; to carry out effectively, see Enforce: to put to

For centuries certain groups of people have been speaking to other groups of people concerning our humanity. This is still being done in order to try and convince those people to end the death penalty.  Yet it appears that no matter how long, or how hard, certain people tried to speak to other people about

I, Kevin Cooper, a forty-one-year old African American, am writing this from death row at San Quentin Prison. Though I am not trying to offend anyone in this writing, I must speak the truth. A truth that most Americans do not want to acknowledge or admit. I like ninety percent of all inmates on death

I, Kevin Cooper, a forty-one-year old African American, am writing this from death row at San Quentin Prison. Though I am not trying to offend anyone in this writing, I must speak the truth. A truth that most Americans do not want to acknowledge or admit. I like ninety percent of all inmates on death