STOP THE EXECUTION!
> END THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY!
www.savekevincooper.org
>
WHAT: Kevin Cooper is scheduled to die at 12:01 AM on
> Tuesday February 10th. The Governor can grant a stay of
> execution at anytime before that time.
>
> Join a protest to Save the life of Kevin Cooper Near the
> Doorstep of Gov. Schwarzenegger
>
> Schwarzenegger unilaterally denied clemency without a
> normal hearing, as is the custom in California. Call on
> the governor to reconsider his unorthodox decision, which
> failed to consider the wishes of at least five jurors from
> Cooper's death penalty trial who want the execution halted
> while previously-ignored evidence in he case is examined.
>
> WHEN: 5 PM Sunday February 8th
>
> WHERE: Near Home of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
> Mandeville Canyon Rd and Chalon Rd.
>
> DIRECTIONs: 405 Fwy, Exit Sunset Blvd.
> West on Sunset 4-5 miles to Mandevile
> North on Mandeville Canyon Rd 1.6 Miles to
> Chalon Rd.
>
> BRING SIGNS and Your Letters for the Govenor.
>
> WHY: Nationwide, prosecutors have had the wrong man in 112
> capital murder cases, forcing innocent men and women to
> spend years on death row facing execution for crimes they
> did not commit.
>
> On February 10, the state of California plans to execute
> Kevin Cooper, a 45-year-old African American man who has
> been on death row for 20 years and whose case raises
> numerous questions about California's capital punishment
> system.
>
> On the night of June 4, 1983, Peggy, Doug and Jessica Ryen
> and a houseguest were brutally murdered in San Bernadino
> County. The youngest member of the family, Josh Ryen, 8,
> managed to survive. When local police learned that Kevin
> Cooper had walked off the grounds of a minimum security
> prison just days before the murders, Cooper became the
> primary suspect - despite the fact that Josh Ryen told
> police and his grandmother that three white or Latino men
> had killed his family.
>
> The State of California conducted DNA tests on Cooper, but
> the integrity of this evidence is highly questionable.
> Blood and saliva samples taken at the time of his
> arrest were released to a technician involved in the
> prosecution, and held for twenty-four hours without a
> court order or the knowledge of Cooper's legal team.
>
> Clumps of long, blond hair were found in the hands of one
> of the victims. Photographs of this hair, which clearly
> does not belong to Cooper, were never shown to the jury.
> The prosecution has refused to allow testing that could
> determine just whose hair it is.
>
> A pair of bloody coveralls submitted to the police by a
> woman claiming that they had been left at her house by her
> boyfriend around the time of the murders were tossed in a
> dumpster without any testing. The woman was never brought
> in to testify.
>
> Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild-LA
> and the Rainbow Sisters Project
>Also:
> JOIN US FOR A RALLY, MARCH and VIGIL
>
> MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9
> RALLY AT 7:00 P.M. WESTWOOD FEDERAL BUILDING
> 11000 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
> (Corner of Veteran)
>
> MARCH AT 8:30 P.M.
> to ST. ALBANS CHURCH for a VIGIL
> 580 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
>
> PARTICIPANTS WILL STAY UNTIL 12:01 A.M. OR WORD OF A STAY
> OF EXECUTION
> ____________________________________________________
> CONTACT GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER
>
> Governor Schwarzenegger Tel: (916) 445-2841
> State Capitol Building Fax: (916) 445-4633
> Sacramento, CA 95814 governor@governor@ca.gov
The e-mail for the Governor's office listed above is incorrect, the correct e-mail is:
governor@governor.ca.gov
Write Schwarzenegger... tell him to STAY THE EXECUTION!
Note the Correction in the email addy for the Governator.