Lethal injection: The vile torture
In a New Year’s Eve display of liberal newspaper death penalty abolition harmony – buoyed by the release of the
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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. His twitter is: @SteveCooperEsq
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Keith and Tex: A revealing conversation with the Rocksteady Rulers
Despite a near thirty-year separation, perhaps no singing duo in music history has enjoyed a comparably resilient, prolific, and successful
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Progressive Alabamians faced an election night last year that was by turns terrifying and soul-crushing, but also, when it comes
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Soon the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear a case with the potential to end this nation’s abominably long
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Top photo: Lee “Scratch” Perry performing at the Dub Club in Los Angeles It’s hard to gauge the immensity of
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By training, retired Air Force colonel Jeff Dunn is not an actor, an anesthesiologist, nor as pointed out when he
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Black Uhuru’s Duckie Simpson and Andrew Bees at the Moto Beach Classic, Orange County, California Anyone familiar with legendary, Grammy
Read moreModern day ‘My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’
My country, ’tis of Thee, Troubled land of shooting sprees, Of Thee I sing; Land where 20 Sandy Hook children
Read moreWhen racism lurks in the heart of a death penalty juror
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” This single, sinister question, asked over a sepulchral-sounding musical score,
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