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...

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...

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...

🗣️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...

#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

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...

ICYMI: See my timeline/last post for a free link. Thanks!

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

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...

🚥 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

ICYMI: See my timeline/last post for a free link. Thanks!

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

🗣️ 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...

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...

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...

On March 12 Alabama executioners will remove Charles Burton’s “protective helmet,” hoist his withered body on a gurney and strap a gas mask across his face. Then for several minutes they’ll suffocate him, making him convulse and gasp and choke for breath. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

Hello. My essay, “The inhumanity of Charles Burton’s execution,” was published today in The Montgomery Advertiser & in its sister newspapers, Tuscaloosa News & Gadsden Times. Burton is to be gassed to death in Alabama on March 12. Here’s a free link: archive.ph/Xpf6R Would you please read and share?

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...

This weeks 2/14 Sounds of the Caribbean #Reggae Radio Podcast Ep 940 is up at www.soundsofthecaribbean.com & on Podbean at www.podbean.com/ew/pb-t8pdz-... The Show is also available on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, & TuneIn. Subscribe, Follow, Download, Stream. Listen & Enjoy! #ReggaeSky ❤️

This ⬇️ will be republished in Alabama—where Mr. Burton’s execution is scheduled on March 12—and I will repost it then.

To the people following me for reggae-related reasons, just a reminder I’m scheduled to interview two reggae legends this month: Pablove Black and Jah Life. Both interviews will eventually be published at @reggae-vibes-nl.bsky.social —so be sure to look for them there. Happy Valentine’s Day. ❤️ 💛 💚

Hello. When you have time, please read my new essay called “The inhumanity of Charles Burton’s execution” published today in @timesofisrael.com Thank you! blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-inhumani...

‘Nuff respect @soundsofthecaribbean.com for mentioning (2X!) the book Scientist & I have written about Scientist’s legendary career on your show this past Saturday which celebrated Bob Marley’s 81st earthstrong. For updates later this year about the book, see: www.stephenacooper.net/forthcoming-...

In case you missed it, my essay “HB 41 is a bad law for Alabama (and it’s unconstitutional)” was published today in Alabama’s best newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser, & in its sister newspapers, The Tuscaloosa News & The Gadsden Times. 🆓link: archive.ph/2026.02.07-1... (pls see my last post, too!)

Yesterday Governor Kay Ivey set the date for Alabama’s next nitrogen-gassing, the state’s eighth, for March 12. 🆓 Link (if paywalled): archive.ph/npW2L www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

Look here: On #BobMarley’s 81st earthstrong, I just want to remind you people about my October 1, 2020 essay, “Bob Marley Still Really Wouldn’t Want You Voting for Trump.” That is all. Thank you. www.northcoastcurrent.com/oside-commun...

How much is Senator Katie Britt thinking about the repetitive gassing-torture executions in Alabama? The next one is set for March 12. @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

I wonder if anyone noticed Alabama’s Governor set a nitrogen-gassing-execution date today—Alabama’s 8th gassing—for another poor Black man on March 12. The victim’s daughter doesn’t want this, the defendant wasn’t the triggerman, and is wheel-chair bound in poor health. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Stephen Cooper: When you think of Dennis Brown, what are one or two of your memories [of him] that come to mind? Sly Dunbar: He [was] a…https://www.reggae-vibes.com/articles/2019/03/10-minutes-with-superstar-drummer-sly-dunbar-the-interview/

In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

In case you missed it, my essay “Alabama’s death penalty goes against Jewish teachings” was published in Alabama’s best & most historic newspaper today—The Montgomery Advertiser (& in its sister papers, The Tuscaloosa News & Gadsden Times). Here’s a link: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

🚥We’ve lost a lot of #reggae legends lately—which has been tough. One reggae legend very much alive is the venerable producer Jah Life. My “part 3” reasoning with Jah Life is set for the end of February. For all the #reggaesky aficionados: Let I&I know what you want me to ask Jah Life! And bless up!

Still shocked and saddened, but also inspired to keep interviewing as many reggae legends as possible. www.reggae-vibes.com/wp-content/u...

I see a lot of posts about #HolocaustMemorialDay today. Good, but just so you know, Alabama has gassed 7 men to death with nitrogen gas since 2024 and Louisiana gassed a man with nitrogen last year. So when we say “never again” that doesn’t include gassing. archive.ph/202509241509...

Rest in peace and in power Sly Dunbar—one of the most innovative and influential drummers of all time. I’ll never forget interviewing Sly in 2019, and everything he told me. We kept in contact a bit afterwards, and he always supported my reggae journalism. www.reggae-vibes.com/articles/201...

This weeks 1/24 Sounds of the Caribbean #Reggae Radio Podcast is up at www.soundsofthecaribbean.com & Podbean www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5i57p-... The show can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, & TuneIn. Subscribe, Download, Stream, Listen & Enjoy #ReggaeSky RIP Stephen "Cat" Coore

Hello. I’ve just launched my own website. Please visit stephenacooper.net. Thanks!

Very good piece! Stephen has been in the trenches and sounding the alarm. Don’t ignore or dismiss this important message…

Hello. When you have time, please read my new essay called “A Jewish meditation on anger and the death penalty” published today in @timesofisrael.com. Thank you! blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-jewish-med...

“The #DeathPenalty and Martin Luther King, Jr.: 'The Time Is Always Right to Do What Is Right'” Link: www.huffpost.com/entry/the-de...

John Steinbeck's road map for resisting Donald Trump citing the example of Martin Luther King Jr., who said, "We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil." Blessed #MLK day. www.tampabay.com/news/perspec...

King addressed the congregation on his birthday, on January 15, 1961, saying: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself … You are commanded to do that. That is the breadth of life.” timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2017...

Always a pleasure and joy to see Luciano perform live. He is one of my cornerstone favorite artists. Hard to believe I’ve been going to his shows for 30 years now #AsburyParkNJ #ReggaeSky #TheMessenger

Hi! In case you’re interested in this, today I published “Investment in Alabama antithetical to French values” in Alabama’s best and most historic newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser, & in its sister newspapers, The Gadsden Times & Tuscaloosa News. Link: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

🚥 To the many people on this platform who love #reggae music: I just spoke with legendary producer Jah Life and for the sake of Jamaican 🇯🇲 music history, Jah Life and I will follow up on our epic 2025 two-part reasoning in spring 2026–and do a part three! Look for it at @reggae-vibes-nl.bsky.social.

🗣️A democratic lawmaker, Rep. Chris England of Tuscaloosa, prefiled—ahead of Alabama’s next legislative session on Jan. 13—HB 76, which would ban the #deathpenalty in the state. It’s unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled legislature where there’ll be efforts to expand capital punishment in 2026.

Bless up every time @soundsofthecaribbean.com ! Hanging out with you in New Jersey was one of the highlights of 2025 and Scientist told me to tell you: “Thank you!” and that he wishes you and all the listeners of Sounds of the Caribbean all the very best in 2026. ❤️ 💛 💚 🇯🇲