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September 08, 2025

Locking God Out: Prison Chaplains & Religious Liberty

Locking God Out: Why Prison Chaplains Must Never Be Gatekeepers Prisons as Graveyards of the...

September 07, 2025

The Dalai Lama & The Death Penalty: Engaging Buddhist Ethics

The Dalai Lama & the Death Penalty: Compassion & Liberation “The death penalty is pure...

September 05, 2025

Priest-Penitent Privilege: A Defense from Death Row

In Defense of Priest-Penitent Privilege *Bibliography at the end of the article. Death row represents...

September 04, 2025

The Epistle to Alabama Christians: Nitrogen & Anthony Boyd

To Alabama Christians, Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord Jesus...

September 03, 2025

The Case Against the Death Penalty for Adolf Hitler

Penalty? On the Weight of Human Atrocity To say Adolf Hitler’s name is to summon...

September 03, 2025

On Possession, Radical Evil and the Pursuit of Justice

The Mystery of Possession In recent days, the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church...where children...

September 02, 2025

Nitrogen Executions as Moral Suffocation

On Nitrogen Executions or The Horror of Suffocating Someone to Death or On Moral Suffocation...

September 01, 2025

The God Who Will Not Stay Dead: On Resurrection

*This sermon is the foundation from which a much more colorful sermon that I...

August 2025

August 31, 2025

The Body of Death: Bioethics & Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution

Listening to the Bodies: Witness Accounts of Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution Kenneth Eugene Smith On a...

August 29, 2025

The Death Penalty and the Limits of Human Righteousness

“They Deserve to Be Executed, Just Not by Us”: A Theological Reflection on the Death...

August 28, 2025

A Manifesto for the Death Penalty Abolition Movement

There are ten executions scheduled in the next two months… Why the Death Penalty Still...

August 26, 2025

A Letter to Curtisia Windom / Florida, Don’t Kill Her Dad

Love is Stronger Than Florida’s Death Penalty August 27, 2025 Dear Curtisia, I’ve carried...

August 26, 2025

Stronger Than Murder: Mercy Must Replace the Death Penalty

Mercy and the Death Penalty The Death Penalty Is About Us The death penalty is...

August 25, 2025

The Eucharist, Executions and the Broken Body of Christ

The Eucharist: Body of a Prisoner The Eucharist is not a polite ritual. It’s...

August 25, 2025

Pope Francis, The Death Penalty & The Radical Hope of Christ

Pope Francis: The Death Penalty is No Longer Admissible When Pope Francis announced in 2018...

August 23, 2025

Alabama Will Execute Anthony Boyd at Its Own Spiritual Peril

The Horror of Nitrogen Gas Executions On October 23, the State of Alabama intends to...

August 22, 2025

Try the Nitrogen Mask On: A Moral Test for Governor Sanders

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, before you authorize a nitrogen execution, try the mask on. Not...

August 22, 2025

The Passion of Jesus According to Nitrogen

The Chamber In the darkness of night, they brought him to the chamber. Where...

August 20, 2025

Facing Jim Jones & Jonestown: In Defense of Hopeful Writing

*This essay is a defense of my desire to wrestle with the horrors of...

August 19, 2025

The Breath of Life Does Not Belong to the State

I saw it with my own eyes. January 25, 2024. Alabama. Kenneth Smith was...

August 13, 2025

Nitrogen Executions in Arkansas

I’ve seen nitrogen kill. January 25, 2024. Alabama. I was Kenneth Smith’s priest. He was...

June 2025

June 18, 2025

Eyewitness to the Final Hours of Anthony Wainwright

“Don’t Let Your Heart Be Troubled” Don’t let your heart be troubled…easier...

May 2025

May 19, 2025

Open Your Eyes Alabama: On the Execution of Greg Hunt

“Greg Hunt’s Death Sentence: A Flawed Capital Murder Case” “Never trust the government." It...

May 17, 2025

Anthony Wainwright did not Rape or Murder Carmen Gayheart

The Crime In 1994, Anthony Wainwright and Richard Hamilton escaped from a prison in Newport,...

May 12, 2025

Anthony Wainwright & Carmen Gayheart : From Horror to Grace

Anthony Wainwright : The Initial Encounter Nobody wants to be prejudged. This is an...

May 11, 2025

Don’t Kill a Pastor: Save Greg Hunt

The Murder In the early morning hours of August 2, 1988, Karen Lane was...

May 05, 2025

The Loneliest Woman in Mississippi: Lisa Jo Chamberlin

Death Row, Mississippi- Each morning, Lisa Jo Chamberlin wakes up alone in her tiny...

May 01, 2025

The Execution Intervention Project: On the Cost of Defiance

Sensational headlines don’t lead to deeper truths. Most of the time, they simply lead...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Lisa Jo Chamberlin: Hope for Life in Mississippi

Lisa Jo Chamberlin: Hope for Life in Mississippi On March 20, 2024, Lisa...

April 28, 2025

Misidentification=Injustice: The Texas Story of Tony Ford

Innocence Taken From Him Tony Ford was just 18. On an evening in December of...