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On Human Rights, California is Better than Japan, Thailand, Taiwan,...
© WikiMedia (Open Clipart Library) On Human Rights, California is Better than Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, and Texas! by Stephen Cooper Speaking in favor of Proposition 66, the ballot initiative...
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15 scintillating minutes with reggae superstar David Hinds
David Hinds, lead vocalist and guitarist for Steel Pulse with writer Stephen Cooper | Courtesy of Stephen Cooper With a signature sound and an inimitable style, roots reggae band Steel Pulse has been...
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Positive Vibrations Reverberate After 7th Annual Reggae On The Mountain
Positive Vibrations Reverberate After 7th Annual Reggae On The Mountain by Stephen A. Cooper Mountain Stage at the 7th Annual Reggae on the Mountain | Courtesy of Stephen A. Cooper When Third World...
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Riverside D.A. Promotes His County’s Infatuation With The Death Penalty
© Wikimedia (CA Corrections (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)) The Riverside County D.A.’s office likes seeking the death penalty so much it was featured by the BBC in December...
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A Reggae Renaissance at BNV Productions in Burbank, CA
Third World’s Steven “Cat” Coore performs at “Catch a Fire Nights” | Courtesy of BNV Productions “BNV Productions is strictly a mom and pop operation – we don’t have rules here; we can do whatever we...
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4 More Years of Trump’s Phony Pompadour & Lochte’s Epic Pee
4 More Years of Trump’s Phony Pompadour & Lochte’s Epic Pee by Stephen Cooper That’s right, my fellow Americans, buck up, because, at a minimum, it’ll be four years before Republican presidential...
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Prop 66’s Five-Year Death Penalty Appeal Fallacy Won’t Fool Californians
© Wikimedia (CA Corrections (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)) Prop 66 proponents claim their deeply flawed ballot initiative will turbo-charge California’s machinery of death...
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Black Uhuru Blesses San Diego’s Belly Up Tavern With A Soul-Stirring Performance
When legendary reggae band Black Uhuru began playing the hypnotically addictive, haunting, head-bobbing, foot-stomping beat of their world-famous song, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, at the Belly Up...
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Proposition 66 (and the death penalty) victimizes the innocent
The death penalty victimizes the innocent children and family members of condemned men and women. These are citizens of this country who have committed no crime, and yet, because of capital...
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Twenty-five enlightening minutes with Black Uhuru’s Duckie Simpson
Duckie Simpson with writer Stephen Cooper | Courtesy of Stephen A. Cooper Derrick “Duckie” Simpson, founder of the world’s top-selling reggae band after Bob Marley and The Wailers, has been in the...
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Qualified Death Penalty Lawyers Don’t Grow on Trees (Another reason to vote...
In response to The San Francisco Chronicle’s recent editorial, “Fight crime, not futility: Abolish the death penalty,” which thoroughly eviscerates Proposition 66 – the Grim Reaper ballot initiative...
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Proposition 62 appeals to the better angels of our nature
© WikiMedia (user) No righteous, freedom-loving Californian believes human beings should be executed for possessing or selling pot. Indeed, we rightly cringe at the megalomaniac entreaties (such as,...
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DOJ’s move on scientific evidence reform hurts justice
Compassionate Americans concerned about the plight of wrongfully convicted citizens – folks who want our criminal justice system to operate fairly and accurately – should be outraged by the Department...
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Please, Posthumously Pardon Marcus Garvey
By George Grantham Bain Collection [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsEarly this week, The Gleaner, Jamaica’s oldest and most respected daily newspaper, reported on that country’s continuing efforts...
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Alabama’s Holman Prison is Hell on Earth
Since opening its doors on December 15, 1969, Alabama’s William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, has been a bastion of violence, fear, pain, and baleful human suffering. Built on a...
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Solitary Confinement Saps Our Country’s Collective Conscience
Over 125 years ago, in a death penalty case called In re Medley, 134 U.S. 160, 170-71 (1890), the United States Supreme Court wrote that solitary confinement was a “further terror and peculiar mark of...
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Alabama’s last execution was an atrocity
Alabama Department of Corrections The last time Alabama played God, executing death row inmate Christopher Brooks by lethal injection on January 21, 2016, The Montgomery Advertiser and al.com published...
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Don’t we all need a friend?
Don’t we all need a Friend? By STEPHEN COOPER “Friend” is a reddish-brown submarine of a dog not unlike a cross between a miniature Jersey cow and tan Easter Bunny. His extra long hash-brown colored...
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Upholding death row inmates’ “suicide burden,” federal judge attacks medical...
Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, W. Keith Watkins, has big-time beef with the medical profession. According to Judge Watkins, “modern medicine has orphaned...
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Finding solace in Steinbeck during the time of Trump
In a jittery, newly authoritarian land of hatred and hurt, chastened criminal and social justice reformers and human rights advocates can find solace and sustenance in the words and works of the...
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