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Sick and Shrouded in Secrecy: Alabama’s Contract to Gas Humans to Death

Sick and Shrouded in Secrecy: Alabama’s Contract to Gas Humans to Death

OsideNews November 6, 2019

By Stephen A. Cooper For $25,000, Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall has contracted with Tennessee company “FDR Safety,” to assist Alabama in developing a barbaric new protocol – to execute...

Op-Ed: When will journalism grapple with the ethics of interviewing mentally ill arrestees?

Op-Ed: When will journalism grapple with the ethics of interviewing mentally ill arrestees?

OsideNews December 15, 2018

By Stephen A. Cooper When, in a December 2016 column for The Hill, I accused the New York Times, the venerable “Gray Lady” of American journalism, of violating basic journalistic ethics in its reporting...

OpEd: The prospective gassing of human beings in Alabama is an abomination

OpEd: The prospective gassing of human beings in Alabama is an abomination

OsideNews December 1, 2018

By Stephen A. Cooper When, in October 2016, I wrote “[d]eath row inmates in Alabama are human guinea pigs” because the state’s capital punishment regime — specifically its barbaric, often bungled...

Glimpsing Steinbeck’s “Collective Mind” Through Steve Hauk’s Stories

Glimpsing Steinbeck’s “Collective Mind” Through Steve Hauk’s Stories

OsideNews September 23, 2018

By Stephen A. Cooper Reflecting on “the soul of artists and writers,” nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed that art “performs the task of preserving, even touching up extinct,...

Protoje performs at the Dub Club in Los Angeles | Courtesy of Stephen A. Cooper

Protoje’s Penetrating Perspective (The Interview)

OsideNews September 16, 2018

By Stephen A. Cooper As much or more than any album in recent memory, in any genre, reggae star Protoje’s “A Matter of Time” – released at the end of June to universal critical acclaim – provides...

Op-Ed: Alabama has been torturing poor people for a long time.

Op-Ed: Alabama has been torturing poor people for a long time.

OsideNews March 5, 2018

By Stephen A. Cooper If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you’re tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in the nation not only knows about it—overwhelmingly, especially...

Op-Ed: Concerning Our Endless Quest for Self-Improvement

Op-Ed: Concerning Our Endless Quest for Self-Improvement

OsideNews January 25, 2018

By Stephen A. Cooper, Esq. To counterbalance the competitive pace of the digital age, and the cacophony of self-help gurus—always more voluble at the start of a new year—urging us to lead “better,”...

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