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Nicholas Kristof on the Kevin Cooper Case in California

By Steve Hall

The New York Times Op Ed columnist's latest is, "Framed for Murder?" That?s the view of five federal judges in a case involving Kevin Cooper, a black man in California who faces lethal injection next year for supposedly murdering a white family. The judges argue compellingly that he was framed by police. Mr. Cooper?s impending execution is so outrageous that it has produced a mutiny among these federal circuit court judges, distinguished jurists just one notch below the United States Supreme Court. But the judicial process has run out for Mr. Cooper. Now it?s up to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to decide whether to commute Mr. Cooper?s sentence before leaving office. This case, an illuminating window into the pitfalls of capital punishment, dates to a horrific quadruple-murder in June 1983...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).