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Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper

@stephenacooper

I’m a writer. I write fiction. I also write about the death penalty, justice reform, reggae, and much more.

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Unjust sentencing was one step to inhumane execution | STEPHEN COOPER Burton was outside the robbed business when the shooting happened but was nonetheless convicted under Alabama’s felony murder statute and sentenced to death.

Burton’s execution by nitrogen-gassing is on March 12. It’s imperative people make their voices in opposition to this heard. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
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Atrocity after atrocity in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death.

🗣️Some of you are just finding out about Alabama’s next nitrogen-gassing on March 12. We can, each of us, through our words and our actions, paint a picture of nitrogen-gassings as something base, something below us, something unquestionably un-American and unacceptable. www.yahoo.com/news/atrocit...

05.03.2026 15:04 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
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Alabama’s justice system treats human beings like hogs | STEPHEN COOPER Alabama will execute 6 men in 2024, a killing spree that treats men like hogs fit for slaughter.

On March 12, contravening the wishes of the victim’s daughter, Alabama will savagely gas-torture an 8th man to death—a 75-year-old poor Black man in a wheelchair suffering from rheumatoid arthritis who didn’t kill anyone (a codefendant who received a life sentence did). www.yahoo.com/news/alabama...

06.03.2026 18:27 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🚥Hi. There’s a whole heap of bad things going on in the world right now, but in irie reggae news: I just spoke with one of Jamaica’s most legendary singers, Mr. Ken Boothe, and we have an interview planned for April which will eventually be published by @reggae-vibes-nl.bsky.social Seen? Blessings🙏🏻

07.03.2026 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Alabama’s next gassing-execution-torture is next week…does that help? bsky.app/profile/step...

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06.03.2026 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Unjust sentencing was one step to inhumane execution | STEPHEN COOPER Burton was outside the robbed business when the shooting happened but was nonetheless convicted under Alabama’s felony murder statute and sentenced to death.

Burton’s execution by nitrogen-gassing is on March 12. It’s imperative people make their voices in opposition to this heard. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
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5 reasons why Alabama shouldn't gas human beings to death | STEPHEN COOPER There are many good reasons why gassing humans to death is wrong.

Some of you have read my essay about “the inhumanity of Charles Burton’s execution”—who’s to be gassed to death March 12. Thank you. With this post, I want to recirculate my 2024 essay advancing “5 reasons why Alabama shouldn't gas human beings to death.” www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

01.03.2026 13:58 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
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Alabama’s justice system treats human beings like hogs | STEPHEN COOPER Alabama will execute 6 men in 2024, a killing spree that treats men like hogs fit for slaughter.

On March 12, contravening the wishes of the victim’s daughter, Alabama will savagely gas-torture an 8th man to death—a 75-year-old poor Black man in a wheelchair suffering from rheumatoid arthritis who didn’t kill anyone (a codefendant who received a life sentence did). www.yahoo.com/news/alabama...

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05.03.2026 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Atrocity after atrocity in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death.

🗣️Some of you are just finding out about Alabama’s next nitrogen-gassing on March 12. We can, each of us, through our words and our actions, paint a picture of nitrogen-gassings as something base, something below us, something unquestionably un-American and unacceptable. www.yahoo.com/news/atrocit...

05.03.2026 15:04 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1

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Interview with Pablove Black (Part 1) | Reggae Vibes Interview with Pablove Black (Part 1) | Read the interview by Stephen Cooper with the master multi-instrumentalist and one-man-band.

www.reggae-vibes.com/articles/202...

04.03.2026 18:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Interview with Pablove Black (Part 1) | Reggae Vibes Interview with Pablove Black (Part 1) | Read the interview by Stephen Cooper with the master multi-instrumentalist and one-man-band.

#Interview Stephen Cooper’s interview with Pablove Black is a must-read for reggae fans. From Studio One to Lee 'Scratch' Perry’s Black Ark, Pablove shares his journey playing with Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. Dive into Part 1 of this historic reasoning! #PabloveBlack @stephenacooper.bsky.social

04.03.2026 14:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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5 reasons why Alabama shouldn't gas human beings to death | STEPHEN COOPER There are many good reasons why gassing humans to death is wrong.

Some of you have read my essay about “the inhumanity of Charles Burton’s execution”—who’s to be gassed to death March 12. Thank you. With this post, I want to recirculate my 2024 essay advancing “5 reasons why Alabama shouldn't gas human beings to death.” www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

01.03.2026 13:58 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1

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27.02.2026 21:54 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ICYMI: See my timeline/last post for a free link. Thanks!

27.02.2026 15:47 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Hello. I’d like to thank Alabama’s best newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser and also USATODAY, for publishing my new poem (www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...): “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee, Not Trump.” Here is a free link to the poem, which I hope you’ll read and also share. Thank you! archive.ph/gAnTn

26.02.2026 22:21 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Alabama’s nitrogen-gassing: the descent of mankind | STEPHEN COOPER Alabama officials ready themselves to again gas-torture another human being with nitrogen.

I don’t think a lot of people realize Alabama’s next nitrogen-gassing is March 12, the victim’s daughter is against it, &, the defendant is a poor already-dying and wheelchair-bound Black man who wasn’t the triggerman (the triggerman got a life sentence). www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

19.02.2026 05:59 👍 15 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 3

🚥 Some irie news, reggae fans: Part 1 of my Pablove Black interview (the transcript is just shy of 10,000 words and 75-mins of audio which will also be released) has been submitted for publication @reggae-vibes-nl.bsky.social Also my part 3 interview of Jah Life is this weekend. Bless up! #Reggaesky

27.02.2026 19:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ICYMI: See my timeline/last post for a free link. Thanks!

27.02.2026 15:47 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Hello. I’d like to thank Alabama’s best newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser and also USATODAY, for publishing my new poem (www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...): “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee, Not Trump.” Here is a free link to the poem, which I hope you’ll read and also share. Thank you! archive.ph/gAnTn

26.02.2026 22:21 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Also, I don’t think Canadians are fans of gassing-torture executions—like they have a lot of in Tuberville’s state. bsky.app/profile/step...

25.02.2026 14:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Alabama savagely gas-tortured a 7th man to death | STEPHEN COOPER Humans have the capacity to do what is right. And gassing humans to death is wrong. So wrong.

🗣️ Hi. I’ve been posting these last few days about Alabama’s next nitrogen-gassing-torture execution—it’s 8th—set for March 12. Continuing in that vein, I’m reposting this essay I published after Alabama’s 7th nitrogen-gassing-torture execution in October. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

25.02.2026 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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How do you like this photo I took of Shinehead the day he spoke to me—and provided the quote in your piece?

25.02.2026 01:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Atrocity after atrocity in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death.

About the state of our union: On March 12, despite the victim’s daughter opposition, Alabama will torture to death—by nitrogen-gassing—a poor, 75-year-old already-dying Black man who wasn’t the triggerman (that person got “life”). See my timeline for more info. Thanks. www.yahoo.com/news/atrocit...

24.02.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Gassing humans to death is wrong | STEPHEN COOPER Killing is an inhuman event in that, while it is committed by humans, it cannot be condoned in civilized society.

This past weekend I posted my new essay about Alabama’s next gassing of a poor, Black, already suffering and dying wheelchair-bound septuagenarian on March 12 (see my timeline for that). Today I’m reissuing this general commentary I wish more people would heed. Thx. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

23.02.2026 17:15 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Yeah, I think we’re likely on the same page here—about that (nitrogen-gassing). bsky.app/profile/step...

23.02.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0