California death sentence suspended. Kevin Cooper’s case reopened

by time news

Time.news – California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered an independent investigation on the case of Kevin Cooper, an African American sentenced to death for the murders of four people in 1983, but who continues to claim his innocence and claims to have been the victim of a police conspiracy. The execution was therefore suspended 24 hours after its programming.

The story of Cooper, now 63, made headlines in 2004 when thethen governor Arnold Schwarzenegger she refused to grant him pardon. Newsom ordered a “full review” of the trial and its appeals, as well as the evidence gathered, before making a decision on the man’s request for leniency.

Convicted of robbery, Cooper had escaped from prison shortly before the murders of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, 10, and his friend Christopher Hughes, 11. Gravely injured but survived the killing, another son of the couple, Joshua Ryen , he accused some “white” men for multiple murder. A thesis confirmed by other witnesses who had also reported the suspicious presence of three white men wearing bloodstained clothes.

Despite this, the investigators they chose to arrest Kevin Cooper then csentenced to court in 1985. His lawyers say it was the police who planted the evidence that led to the conviction, deliberately ignoring other leads. For this the governor has decided that a new investigation is needed to find out what the truth is.

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