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Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California. Follow him on Twitter at @SteveCooperEsq

Articles by Stephen Cooper

A lethal injection drug—sodium pentobarbitol—sits among IV lines used to inject it. TDCJ lawyers likely violated legal ethics rules in disclosing the state's stockpile of these drugs.

Texas Lawyers Violated Legal Ethics Over Expired Execution Drugs

An expert told the Observer that state’s attorneys “deceived the court by their silence” over supplies of lethal injection drugs.

by Stephen Cooper

The custom "gurney" where prisoners are strapped down, arms spread out to either side, to prepare them for lethal injection.

Texas Bloodlust Usurps Prosecutorial Discretion

John Ramirez will be executed October 5 over the objections of the Nueces county district attorney.

by Stephen Cooper