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Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
@stephenacooper.bsky.social
I’m a writer. I write fiction. I also write about the death penalty, justice reform, reggae, and much more.
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Hello. On Feb 6, my former client Demetrius Frazier will be gas-tortured to death in Alabama. My column “Leadership abdication and Alabama’s next execution” has been published in The MontgomeryAdvertiser (in Alabama) & also at @USATODAY.com Here’s a free link. Please read: archive.ph/2025.01.28-1...
Hello. When you have time, please check out my new essay published @TimesofIsrael.com today: “Investment in Alabama antithetical to French values.” Thank you! blogs.timesofisrael.com/investment-i...
The Blogs: Investment in Alabama antithetical to French values
From the blog of Stephen A. Cooper at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Hello. My short story “Rifkin Rising” was published today in Alabama’s best and most historic newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser. Check it out when you have time—it’s about a 7-minute read. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
'Rifkin Rising' — a short story
This short story is written by Stephen Cooper, who used to live in Montgomery.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Reposted by Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
This weeks 12/13 Sounds of the Caribbean #Reggae Radio Podcast Ep. 931 is up at www.soundsofthecaribbean.com & on #Podbean at www.podbean.com/ew/pb-sgcfa-... The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Mixcloud, Audacy & TuneIn. Follow, Download, Stream, Listen & Enjoy! #ReggaeSky
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
Tennessee execution highlights death penalty’s depravity.
Unethical Injection
Tennessee execution highlights death penalty’s depravity.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚥Been a likkle since I posted anything for the reggae massive:

Greetings & best wishes for the holidays! On Valentine’s💘Day 2026 I’m scheduled to interview legendary Jamaican musician Pablove Black. If you have a question you’d like me to ask him, please let me know. Bless 🙏🏼
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🗣️Hello everyone. ICYMI Today I published “Investment in Alabama antithetical to German values” in Alabama’s best newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser—also in its sister papers in Gadsden and Tuscaloosa, too; it’ll be published in print Sunday. For a 🆓link, click: archive.ph/3sY6Q or see my timeline.
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🗣️ ICYMI: My essay about the next execution in Tennessee—scheduled on Dec. 11—was published online this evening in The Chattanooga Times-Free Press (@timesfreepress.bsky.social); it will run, in print, in Tennessee tomorrow. Please give it a read. And thank you! www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...
Times Opinion: Tennessee execution highlights death penalty’s depravity | Chattanooga Times Free Press
The litigation — especially U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson's cynical and macabre opinion published Nov. 26 — concerning Harold Wayne Nichols' scheduled execution on Dec. 11 in Tennessee contains e...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The execution in question is scheduled Dec. 11. If this 🆓link doesn’t open for you, or if you want to see the hyperlinks used in this essay’s initial publication: see my immediate last post. This essay will also be published in Tennessee tomorrow. Thanks. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
December 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hello. When you have time, please check out my new essay published @TimesofIsrael.com today: “Tennessee execution highlights death penalty’s depravity.” (The execution in question is scheduled to take place on December 11.) Thank you! blogs.timesofisrael.com/tennessee-ex...
The Blogs: Tennessee execution highlights death penalty’s depravity
From the blog of Stephen A. Cooper at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hello. When you have time, please check out my new essay published @TimesofIsrael.com today: “Investment in Alabama antithetical to German values.” Thank you! blogs.timesofisrael.com/investment-i...
The Blogs: Investment in Alabama antithetical to German values
From the blog of Stephen A. Cooper at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
Deeply saddened to hear that Jimmy Cliff has died at the age of 81.

A truly magnificent singer and performer. He started out as a teenager in the early 60s recording future classics like this...

RIP lion 🦁🙏

youtu.be/HRVqG5QxvhY?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #jimmycliff
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Reposted by Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
This weeks 11/15 Sounds of the Caribbean #Reggae Radio Podcast EP.928 is up at www.soundsofthecaribbean.com & also on Podbean www.podbean.com/ew/pb-m2qve-... The show can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audacy, Mixcloud, & TuneIn. Follow, Download, Stream Listen & Enjoy! #ReggaeSky
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hi everyone. There’s a lot of bad things going on in the world, but one good thing is: The Montgomery Advertiser—Alabama’s best & most historic newspaper—published “Cloverdale Park, Part Three—Love After Death Revisited: A short story.” Please give it a read! Thank you! www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Cloverdale Park, Part Three – Love After Death Revisited: A short story
The following is a continuation of a short ghost story written by Stephen Cooper, who used to live in Montgomery near Cloverdale Park.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Not too many people are still thinking about this, but I forgot to mention my column (which you can find on my timeline), “Alabama savagely gas-tortured a 7th man to death,” was also published in The Tuscaloosa News & The Gadsden Times on Friday. The next gassing-execution date hasn’t been set. Yet.
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🗣️ The Montgomery Advertiser—Alabama’s oldest and best newspaper—doesn’t have a presence (yet) on #Bluesky which is too bad. ICYMI this is my most recent opinion-essay just published by The Advertiser concerning last week’s execution in Alabama. Thank you. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...
October 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🗣️Hello. When you have time would you please consider reading my new essay “Alabama savagely gas-tortured a 7th man to death” which I published today at @TimesofIsrael.com—and anticipate soon republishing in Alabama? Thanks for your attention and amplification. blogs.timesofisrael.com/alabama-sava...
The Blogs: Alabama savagely gas-tortured a 7th man to death
From the blog of Stephen A. Cooper at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I remember when things were simpler to discuss—though no less horrifying—before this evening and Alabama’s 7th nitrogen-gassing-torture (and the nation’s 8th). Still pardon me for my abundance of posts on this topic lately—I know it’s a pretty niche subject of interest. www.yahoo.com/news/atrocit...
Atrocity after atrocity in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER
On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death.
www.yahoo.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In January 2024, after Alabama’s first execution by nitrogen-gassing, I published “Alabama torture outrage muted and unconscionably insufficient.” Alabama has since gas-tortured 5 more men. Another gassing is set for Thursday, October 23. For more info: see my timeline. www.yahoo.com/news/alabama...
Alabama torture outrage muted and unconscionably insufficient
Torture, and the abhorrence of good, moral people everywhere to it, has been, until now, a non-partisan issue.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reposted by Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
FYI Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit refused to stay Alabama’s 7th nitrogen-gassing-execution torture on 10/23, affirming a federal district court’s decision that 2 to 7 minutes of conscious suffocation would not establish an 8th Amendment violation.
For more see my timeline.
Hello. “In the course of inhuman and barbaric events, good people have a duty to insist that other humans not engage in, and not perpetuate those events.” Alabama’s 7th—and America’s 8th—nitrogen-gassing-execution torture is set for next Thursday.

(🆓 🔗: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...)
October 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Reposted by Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
Alabama’s going to gas another poor Black man to death on Thursday. www.yahoo.com/news/atrocit...
Atrocity after atrocity in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER
On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death.
www.yahoo.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
FYI Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit refused to stay Alabama’s 7th nitrogen-gassing-execution torture on 10/23, affirming a federal district court’s decision that 2 to 7 minutes of conscious suffocation would not establish an 8th Amendment violation.
For more see my timeline.
Hello. “In the course of inhuman and barbaric events, good people have a duty to insist that other humans not engage in, and not perpetuate those events.” Alabama’s 7th—and America’s 8th—nitrogen-gassing-execution torture is set for next Thursday.

(🆓 🔗: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...)
October 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Alabama’s going to gas another poor Black man to death on Thursday. www.yahoo.com/news/atrocit...
Atrocity after atrocity in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER
On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death.
www.yahoo.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper
Hello. “In the course of inhuman and barbaric events, good people have a duty to insist that other humans not engage in, and not perpetuate those events.” Alabama’s 7th—and America’s 8th—nitrogen-gassing-execution torture is set for next Thursday.

(🆓 🔗: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...)
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM