By Stephen Cooper Former D.C. Public Defender If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you’re tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in the nation not only knows about it—overwhelmingly, especially in liberal, progressive, civilized circles of thought and news—they’re righteously appalled. But poor death row inmates in Alabama (which overwhelmingly … Continue reading Opinion | Newsflash: Alabama has been torturing poor people for a long time