Death Sentence: The Murder of Ruth Pelke & the Punishment of Paula Cooper

On a weekday afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, fifteen-year-old Paula Cooper stabbed 78-year-old Ruth Pelke to death. In a city with a history of racism, Ruth was a white, beloved bible teacher who refused to move out of her overwhelmingly black neighborhood. When Paula and her friends showed up at Ruth’s door that day […] The post Death Sentence: The Murder of Ruth Pelke & the Punishment of Paula Cooper appeared first on Tiegrabber.

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