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2026-10-27T09:02:20-06:00

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Ernesto Martinez: Love’s Battle Against an Execution Date

Last updated on: October 27, 2026 at 9:02 am By Jeff Hood

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Arizona Wants a Date to Kill Ernesto Martinez In the first days of September, the Attorney General of Arizona told the Arizona Supreme Court what she wants. Kris Mayes filed notice that the state will ask for a warrant to execute Ernesto Martinez. The motion comes in November. The date could come as early as January. A notice. A motion. A warrant. A date. Her office says she is enforcing the law as Arizona wrote it. I have heard that... Read more

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2026-10-24T19:21:47-06:00

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Meaninglessness: On Ecclesiastes 1:2–11

Last updated on: October 24, 2026 at 7:21 pm By Jeff Hood

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The River Does Not Need to Arrive Ecclesiastes 1:2–11 A contemporary rendering centered on meaninglessness Meaningless. Meaningless, says the Teacher. Everything is meaningless. Utterly meaningless. What does anyone gain from all the work they exhaust themselves doing under the sun? One generation disappears and another takes its place, but the world keeps going as though nothing has happened. The sun rises. The sun sets. It hurries back to where it began only to do it all over again. The wind... Read more

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2026-10-23T00:20:16-06:00

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Idaho’s Firing Squad $1.2 Million Lie is Seducing a Nation

Last updated on: October 23, 2026 at 12:20 am By Jeff Hood

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Idaho’s Firing Squad $1.2 Million Lie is Seducing a Nation Idaho built a room to shoot people in. That’s right. Shoot. It cost more than $1.2 million. The state bought five rifles for more than $24,000. The director signed off on the protocol. On July 1, the firing squad became Idaho’s primary method of execution. Since then, Idaho has not shot anyone. Not a single person. The firing squad is the lie states tell themselves when the other lies stop... Read more

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2026-10-22T14:04:04-06:00

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Governor Newsom: Don’t Hand Off California’s Death Row

Last updated on: October 22, 2026 at 2:04 pm By Jeff Hood

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Don’t Hand Off California’s Death Row On November 3, Californians will choose between two men. One of them will inherit the largest death row in the nation. Neither should be trusted with it. Steve Hilton says he opposes the death penalty himself. He also says he will end the moratorium because voters kept the death penalty twice. A man who will restart the killing he claims to oppose is telling you who he is. Xavier Becerra says he will keep... Read more

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2026-10-21T20:08:38-06:00

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Indiana Must Run Towards Grace, Not the Gun

Last updated on: October 21, 2026 at 8:08 pm By Jeff Hood

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Indiana Must Run Towards Grace, Not the Gun Indiana came close to the gun. On January 28, 2026, the Indiana House failed to pass a bill that would have let the state execute people by shooting them. On October 7, 2026, a father named Steven Lynch signed an affidavit. Alyssa was eight. Caleb was five. In 2010, Jeffrey Weisheit bound Caleb with duct tape, gagged him and set fire to the Evansville house with both children inside. Horrific is an... Read more

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2026-10-21T13:26:56-06:00

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Tennessee: Don’t Shoot Christa Pike or Anyone Else

Last updated on: October 21, 2026 at 1:26 pm By Jeff Hood

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Tennessee: Don’t Shoot Christa Pike or Anyone Else Tennessee tried to kill Christa Pike. It could not. On the night of September 30, someone inside Riverbend called 911. The transcript reads: “We’ve administered 10 grams of pentobarbital. The person is not yet deceased.” Ten grams is two full doses under state protocol. Nearly an hour had passed. Pike was still breathing. She was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Of course, she is still alive. Four months earlier, the... Read more

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2026-10-21T07:02:52-06:00

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South Carolina Brought the Firing Squad Back. Now, Stop It.

Last updated on: October 21, 2026 at 7:02 am By Jeff Hood

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The military intends to pull Nidal Hassan out of his wheelchair, raise rifles and obliterate the chest of the convicted terrorist. It will be the first military firing squad execution since 1961. Of course, the news carries a weight in South Carolina unlike nowhere else. Last year, this state used the firing squad three times. Brad Sigmon on March 7. Mikal Mahdi on April 11. Stephen Bryant on Nov. 14. Previously, no prisoner had been executed by firing squad... Read more

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2026-10-17T13:41:52-06:00

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The Image: On the Horror of Capitalism and Matthew 22:15-21

Last updated on: October 17, 2026 at 1:41 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Image Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and... Read more

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2026-10-10T16:58:09-06:00

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GOD Will Wipe Away the Tears from Every Face

Last updated on: October 10, 2026 at 4:58 pm By Jeff Hood

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“GOD will wipe away the tears from every face.” Isaiah 25:8 GOD will wipe away the tears from every face: The Silence after an Execution I have been thinking about these words since coming home from Huntsville. There is a particular kind of silence that follows an execution. It is not the silence of peace. It is not the silence of something settled. It is the silence of a world that keeps moving while something inside you has stopped. The... Read more

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2026-09-29T12:08:45-06:00

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Why Can’t Anyone Say Evil? On the Execution of Christa Pike

Last updated on: September 29, 2026 at 12:08 pm By Jeff Hood

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Christa Pike and Colleen Slemmer In January of 1995, Colleen Slemmer walked into the woods on the University of Tennessee’s agricultural campus in Knoxville with people she thought were her friends. She was cut with a box cutter. A pentagram was carved into her chest. Her head was broken open with a piece of asphalt. Christa Pike carried a piece of her skull out of the trees and showed it off to a friend. Evil. The word has gone quiet... Read more

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