Torture in America: Battling the death penalty
If you’re thirsting to understand our increasingly cold, jaundiced, at times carcinogenic society, James Baldwin’s singular insight about America and
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Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California. @SteveCooperEsq
Author: Stephen A. Cooper
Alabama has a history of torturing poor people
If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you’re tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in
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Capital punishment could come to an end in America
Wiping the stain of capital punishment clean On Monday, the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear a case with
Read moreGov. Terry McAuliffe do the right thing
Hey Gov. McAuliffe: A Democratic standard-bearer would grant Morva mercy In 2017, The Times They Are A-Changin’ is more than just a
Read more‘In Dubious Battle’ by Steinbeck offers lessons for today
Rarely since the Great Depression has our country been as polarized and angry as it is today. On television, in
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Opinion: Hitler should have gotten life without parole
In a blood-thirsty column clamoring for faster executions in the United States, John Steele Gordon, a writer specializing in financial and business
Read moreDoes Alabama torture its prisoners?
Is Alabama hiding evidence it tortured two of its citizens? Before Ronald Bert Smith’s corpse grew cold – following his patently
Read moreFair Justice Act in Alabama is anything but fair
Tied for seventh among states with the most exonerated defendants according to a February 2016 report by the National Registry of
Read moreArkansas death penalty is ghoulish torture
Ghoulishness envelops Arkansas’ decision to pump deadly drugs into eight men over the next fortnight. Although two of the eight
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Trump’s immigration policies imperil police and public
Standing stiffly in overly-starched police blues it was obvious, even before he admitted so himself, that Officer Sean Dinse wished
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