Celebrating Oktoberfest in Alabama with executions
October is a pleasant time of year to be in Alabama — especially if you love killing. Sure, happening times
Read moreStephen 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
October is a pleasant time of year to be in Alabama — especially if you love killing. Sure, happening times
Read moreThis past Tuesday, well over one hundred and fifty years since the end of the Civil War, a powerful, well-connected,
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Read moreBorn with albinism in 1956, dancehall music legend King Yellowman was rejected from birth. As a baby, he was found
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