EPISODE · May 29, 2018 · 30 MIN
Columnist Nicholas Kristof on The Framing of Kevin Cooper
from 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context · host Death Penalty Information Center
New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof used the power of his pen to focus national attention on the troubling case of California death-row prisoner, Kevin Cooper and to urge Governor Jerry Brown to authorize DNA testing that could resolve outstanding issues of Cooper’s guilt or innocence. Kristof’s May 20 column in the Sunday Times asked: Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder? Mr. Kristof joins DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham to answer that question and to discuss how the Cooper case is the embodiment of some of the most intractable systemic failures in the American death-penalty system. To read Mr. Kristof’s column on Kevin Cooper: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
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Columnist Nicholas Kristof on The Framing of Kevin Cooper
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