David Hanners

Oct 8, 2024 | tylerpaper.com | David Hanners

In a speech at the National Cathedral just five days before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” When I started investigating Kerry Max Cook’s case for The Dallas Morning News in December 1987, that quote stuck in my mind. Cook had already been on death row for nearly a decade. He was convicted and sentenced to die for the gruesome slaying of Linda Jo Edwards, of Tyler.

Jul 5, 2024 | tylerpaper.com | David Hanners

We’ve been here before. Throughout the 47-year history of Texas v. Kerry Max Cook, the Tyler Morning Telegraph often failed to distinguish itself with its coverage of the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards and Mr. Cook’s subsequent legal odyssey. The paper’s June 22 article, “Family, experts react as Kerry Max Cook cleared of 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards,” did it again.

Jul 6, 2020 | twincities.com | David Hanners

Jun 16, 2020 | twincities.com | David Hanners

Jun 16, 2020 | twincities.com | David Hanners