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Kerry Cook and the SMU screening of "The Exonerated"

By "Persian Cowboy"

On Friday night a film screening of "The Exonerated" will precede a question and answer session from a man on which one of the movie's characters was based: Kerry Max Cook, an innocent man convicted of capital murder in 1977. After spending 22 years on death row, DNA testing exonerated him from the crime.Rick Halperin, director of the SMU Human Rights Education Program, hopes that the 2 events - both Holbrook's photographs and Cook's presentation - will "rehumanize" inmates to the public eye."Cook spent as much time on death row as the average college student has been alive," Halperin said.Today Cook is an anti-death penalty activist and author of his memoir "Chasing Justice," of which he will be signing copies and selling for $15 during the film screening...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).