Inmate Headed for February Execution
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California’s first condemned inmate to undergo post-conviction DNA testing could be executed as early as February, state officials said.
Kevin Cooper, convicted of killing three family members and a guest at their Chino Hills home after escaping from a nearby prison in 1983, would become the 11th inmate executed since capital punishment resumed in California in 1978.
Cooper’s appeals, now exhausted, have meandered through the courts for years. One of his latest battles challenged the sufficiency of a DNA analysis, which showed he was the killer.
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