Kerry Max Cook
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Kerry Max Cook is an ex-death row inmmate who was wrongly convicted for the rape and death of 21-year old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] He served over 20 years in a Texas prison on death row. Since his release, Cook has become an activist against the death penalty speaking across the United States and in Europe. [2]
Cook is one of six people whose stories were dramatized in the play and later the film "The Exonerated", which relates how the six had each been wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but were later exonerated and freed after varying years of imprisonment.
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