by Bob Walsh
Kevin Cooper has been a guest of the people of the formerly great state of California for 35 years, awaiting execution. He was convicted of the hatchet murder of four people, including two children, in Chino Hills. There has been other DNA testing, each time Cooper asserted the testing would prove he was framed. In fact the testing concluded the opposite. The Governor has just ordered additional testing of more evidence, because the N Y TIMES, Kim Kardashian and Kamala Harris want him to. Really. (I wonder why Harris didn't do it herself when she was the A.G.)
At the time of the murders Cooper had just escaped from a minimum custody section of a nearby state prison. He had copped to a burglary charge immediately upon his arrest and waived a PSI. He was sent straight to intake, which at the time was minimum security for people such as burglars. The whole thing happened so fast they didn't get the fingerprint check back, which would have revealed him to be an escaped prisoner from back east. He escaped almost immediately by going over an unsecured 6-foot chain link fence.
Since these murders the state of CA has classified ALL intake prisoners as high risk until full background checks prove otherwise.
Cooper and his lawyers are claiming he was framed. Gee, what a surprise.
California has not executed a prisoner in 13 years. There are over 800 people on death row. Cooper's appeals have been rejected, including by both the CA Supreme Court and SCOTUS.
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