Perhaps you have read the article to find out why Kevin Cooper it's author said as such.

On February 10, 2004 at one minute after midnight, the state of California had planned to murder me legally by what was said to be the most humane way to execute a human being, which is a oxymoron because there is no such thing as a humane way to commit homicide and that is what executions are — homicides.This was to be done to me during Black History Month by white people who wanted their sick version of justice or revenge or retribution. for a crime I did not commit.

Certain death penalty supporters, including politicians, say that the death penalty is a deterrent. We as Black people know this is used as an excuse to keep murdering us, and to cover up the truth on what is a racist policy. This must be viewed not just through the lens of today, but through the lens of time, wherein untold numbers of poor and Black people lost their lives due to white man’s justice.

With all the deception that is ongoing in the institutions that run and control this country, how can anyone actually have faith and confidence in the capital punishment system that hasn’t really changed since it first started centuries ago? The same people who do the executing, for the most part the white man, and the same people who always have been the executed — Black and other minority people — are still in those roles. When are Americans as a whole going to wake up and see that all of our professed humanity is at stake in this?

If it’s true that the state of California leads, and the rest of the country follows, then this state needs to put aside the moratorium on executions and follow other states in unequivocally ending this system of manmade death — and do it soon.

Kevin Cooper, In 1985, Kevin Cooper was convicted of a 1983 quadruple murder and sentenced to death in a trial in which evidence that might have exonerated him was withheld or destroyed from the defense. Cooper has become active in writing from prison to assert his innocence, protest racism in the American criminal justice system, and oppose the death penalty. His case was scrutinized by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Jan. 23, 2021, May 17, 2018 and June 17, 2017, and by 48 Hours, with Erin Moriarty, most recently on March 21, 2020 in “The Troubling Case Against Keven Cooper