Assemblyman Curt Hagman Requests Governor Set a Date for Kevin Cooper Execution

Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills), Vice-Chair of the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee, urged Governor Schwarzenegger on Monday to set a date for the execution of convicted murderer Kevin Cooper.  The California death row inmate lost his last appeal today when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his conviction.

 

Cooper was sentenced to death for the brutal murders of a Chino Hills residents Doug and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica and 11-year-old neighbor Christopher Hughes, after escaping from the nearby Chino Prison. 

 

"A death row inmate who was incarcerated when Jerry Brown was California's governor still hasn't received his punishment. Kevin Cooper has been allowed 26 more years of life than he gave the Ryen family and Christopher Hughes," said Assemblyman Hagman, "It is time for the State of California to deliver the justice it promised Cooper's victims and their families in 1983."

 

For more information on Assemblyman Hagman see: www.assembly.ca.gov/hagman