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The Case of Kevin Cooper

By Steve Hall

"Doubts remain -- but legal recourse does not -- in Kevin Cooper case," is the title of Carol Williams' report from the Sunday Los Angeles Times.Now, after 26 years, the legal hurdles to Cooper's execution have been surmounted. With the Supreme Court's decision last month not to review his claim of innocence, the 52-year-old becomes only the sixth of California's 697 death row prisoners cleared for lethal injection once a federal judge approves revised procedures.But the exhaustion of Cooper's legal recourse hasn't silenced supporters who claim he was the victim of corrupt law enforcement and stunning bad luck. The opponents of capital punishment who have long clung to puzzling clues and hints of police misconduct have been joined by a prison warden, 11 federal judges and five jurors now bothered by allegations that Cooper was framed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).