Death Row Exoneree to Speak Nov. 7

Kerry Max Cook, Let Nothing Keep You Down, will lecture at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis on Friday, November 7th at 5 p.m. in the Wynne Courtroom Inlow Hall, with reception and book signing at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Cook is an advocate for legal reform and has lectured at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago, as well as internationally since gaining his freedom from death row.

Cook was born in Stuttgart, Germany into an Army family, and spent much of his youth on Army bases. He returned to the United States with his family in 1972 to live in Texas. In 1997, at age 20, Cook was arrested and wrongly convicted of capital murder, a crime for which he would spend the next two decades on death row. Kerry Max Cook’s story was part of the critically acclaimed play and movie “The Exonerated.” Cook has appeared on Nightline, Geraldo, Catherine Crier Live, the Today Show, and Frontline.

Cook’s book, Chasing Justice, was voted “book of the year” in 2007 by Reader’s Digest and can be purchased at the reception and personally autographed. Books are $15 and cash or checks can be accepted. www.chasingjustice.com