This is the story of Kerry Max Cook. I spent 22 years on Texas death row for a murder I didn’t commit. I was raped by other inmates and dehumanized by Smith County prosecutors who tried me 3 times with evidence later found to be fraudulent. I’m out of prison, but 36 years after my arrest, my conviction still stands under Texas law. In 1999, a Law Enforcement Crime Lab released the results of a semen stain from the rape and murder. The results proved what Mr. Cook spent decades proclaiming, he was innocent and had been made to appear guilty only through misconduct. We demand Kerry’s full exoneration from the State of Texas.



