Tim Cole posthumously receives degree from Texas Tech (black man pardoned for rape)
After Timothy Cole was wrongfully arrested for the rape of a Texas Tech student, his sister Karen Kennard told him she wanted to leave the university’s law school.
But Cole told her to stay — an innocent man behind bars, he sent his sister a letter from prison.
“I still believe in the justice system, even though it doesn’t believe in me,” he wrote.
Karen decided to stay, receiving her law degree from Tech in 1988. In the decades since attending Tech, Cole was wrongfully convicted of rape in 1986, maintained his innocence until dying in prison in 1999 and was eventually posthumously pardoned by then-Gov. Rick Perry in 2010.
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Cross-posted in the African American Group.
