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Kevin Cooper is an innocent African-American man on San Quentin’s death row. He was sent to San Quentin’s notorious East Block on trumped-up charges that held him responsible for the brutal 1983 San Bernardino, CA slaying of the Ryen family and a family friend.
On February 10, 2004, Kevin was scheduled to die by lethal injection in San Quentin’s execution chamber, but a massive, international movement to stop the execution was successful in forcing the courts to issue a last minute stay of execution. Just 3 hours and 42 minutes before Kevin was to be strapped to the gurney, the word came to him in San Quentin’s so-called death holding cell that he would be spared.
Today Kevin is still fighting for his life as well as his freedom.
Kevin has always maintained his innocence, and with the help of a new legal and investigative team, and more importantly a mass movement to end the imprisonment and execution of poor people and people of color, Kevin’s innocence has been proven without a doubt. Not only are the charges against him false, but as you will find when the info is posted, the charges against Kevin are impossible to believe!
This is Kevin Cooper's page, and he will contribute to it by writing letters from death row. The person building the page is Rebecca Doran of the Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Any person or group interested in spreading the word on Kevin's case will be invited and encouraged to participate. Keep checking back for more info.
If you'd like to get involved in the struggle to free Kevin Cooper, contact The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal at 415.255.1085.
Kevin Cooper in the press:
CALIFORNIA KILLING: THE CASE OF KEVIN COOPER
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
KPFA Interview with Kevin/hear Mumia's broadcast
The state of Texas gave us another reason to forever commemorate Black August and to rededicate ourselves to the revolutionary struggle. At 6:00 this evening, they executed our brother, Hasan Shakur, the Minister of Human Rights of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter. He had recently turned 29 years old. KPFA
KPFA - January 29, 2004
SF Chronicle
SF Chronicle
Socialist Action
SF Bayview
CBS
9th Circuit
Organizations:
The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Kenny Richey Campaign
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Write to: Kevin Cooper, C-65304, 3-EB-82, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin CA 94974.
In memory of Stan Tookie Williams, and Frances Newton, the first African American woman executed in modern Texas history.
www.savekevincooper.org
