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October 2022

October 29, 2022

Faces tell stories…and stories tell faces.: Save Anthony Sanchez! An Innocent Man on Oklahoma’s Death Row

Faces tell stories…and stories tell faces. Such is the juxtaposition from which I write. ...

October 26, 2022

Scott Eizember, AJ Cantrell & Patsy Cantrell: Oklahoma & An Impending Execution

Scott Eizember, AJ Cantrell & Patsy Cantrell: Oklahoma & An Impending Execution For over...

October 23, 2022

Goodbye Dear Friend & Mentor: The Rev. Dr. Henry Mugabe of Zimbabwe

Sunday October 23, 2022 3:00am Goodbye Dear Friend & Mentor: The Rev. Dr....

October 22, 2022

Rigged: On the Partiality of the (a) Death Qualified Jury (or why Scott Eizember shouldn’t be executed by Oklahoma in January)

October 22, 2022 Rigged: On the Partiality of the (a) Death Qualified Jury (or...

October 19, 2022

Lamentations: On Benjamin Cole (w/ Abe Bonowitz)

October 19, 2022 Lamentations: On Benjamin Cole (w/ Abe Bonowitz) Benjamin...

October 17, 2022

Jesus’ First Execution: Dirt, Oklahoma, Anthony Sanchez & The Struggle to End the Death Penalty

October 16, 2022 Jesus' First Execution: Dirt, Oklahoma, Anthony Sanchez & The Struggle to...

October 16, 2022

A Primer on Moral Ethics

A Primer on Moral Ethics For a number of years, I spent every...

October 14, 2022

Nikolas Cruz, The Parkland Families & The Difference Between Vengeance & Justice

On February 14, 2018, Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 students and staff...

October 13, 2022

the REAL BENJAMIN COLE. / a Death Penalty Competency Test for Oklahoma

the REAL BENJAMIN COLE. / a Death Penalty Competency Test for Oklahoma Back when...

October 10, 2022

The Devil in Disguise? : The Unbelievable Incompetence/Criminality of Joyce Gilchrist & The Fight to Save Anthony Sanchez

The Devil in Disguise? : The Unbelievable Incompetence/Criminality of Joyce Gilchrist & The Fight...

October 09, 2022

SAVE ANTHONY SANCHEZ! : a Choctaw Man about to be Executed on Choctaw Land

*I constructed this letter to the editor for Indigenous People's Day (October 10). It was...

October 06, 2022

An Oration to Abolitionists Following the Execution of John Ramirez.

*Delivered on a Death Penalty Action vigil immediately following the October 5, 2022 Execution...

October 05, 2022

The Executioner. : On the Executioners of John Ramirez

The Executioner. : On the Executioners of John Ramirez Tonight, John...

September 2022

September 29, 2022

Football is Evil: Tua Tagovailoa & Our Addiction to Watching the Destruction of Others

Football is Evil: Tua Tagovailoa & Our Addiction to Watching the Destruction of Others ...

September 27, 2022

Lamentations: On John Henry Ramirez

Lamentations: On John Henry Ramirez In South Texas, John Henry Ramirez robbed and...

September 14, 2022

The Dead Queen, The Dead King/Royal Family & Black Lives Matter in London

The Dead Queen, The Dead King/Royal Family & Black Lives Matter in London ...

September 13, 2022

Alabama Insanity: On the Potential Gas Chamber Execution of Alan Eugene Miller

September 13, 2022 Alabama Insanity: On the Potential Gas Chamber Execution of Alan...

September 11, 2022

Pull Back The Curtains on Executions!!!

Pull Back The Curtains on Executions!!! crossposted @ Death Penalty Action, By...

September 05, 2022

The Dawn of a New Resistance: Words of Intentional Division in a Time of Apathy

The Dawn of a New Resistance: Words of Intentional Division in a Time of...

September 04, 2022

On the Need for Honest Abolitionists.

On the Need for Honest Abolitionists. Throughout my work of abolition, I’ve committed...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

There’s a Snake Loose in Oklahoma named Pastor Scott Williams

Prosperity theology teaches that those who follow God are automatically blessed with abundance. Like there...

August 25, 2022

EXECUTION TODAY: Clemency Statement of & Lamentations on JAMES CODDINGTON

Clemency Statement of & Lamentations on JAMES CODDINGTON CLEMENCY STATEMENT OF JAMES CODDINGTON...

August 14, 2022

Wonderful Words of Life? // Mark Sandlin & Jeff Hood on Poetry & Genesis 1

Buy our new book at https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Words-Life-Interactions-Genesis/dp/B0B8BJZ92M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FJXG9939XOAF&keywords=wonderful+words+jeff+hood+mark+sandlin&qid=1660532649&sprefix=wonderful+words+jeff+hood+mark+sandlin%2Caps%2C254&sr=8-1 Wonderful Words of Life? Poetic Interactions with Genesis...

August 13, 2022

A Letter to the Editor & A Public Prayer for Kosoul Chanthakoumanne

A Letter to the Editor & A Public Prayer for Kosoul Chanthakoumanne Back...

August 08, 2022

WHEN FORGIVENESS BECOMES A FARCE: On the Fight to Save KOSOUL CHANTHAKOUMMANE, the KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS & Catholic INDIFFERENCE

WHEN FORGIVENESS BECOMES A FARCE: On the Fight to Save KOSOUL CHANTHAKOUMMANE, the KNIGHTS...

August 05, 2022

Lamentations: On Kosoul Chantakoumanne

Lamentations: On Kosoul Chantakoumanne Make no mistake…Sarah Walker was brutally murdered in McKinney...

July 2022

July 26, 2022

LAMENTATIONS: on JOE JAMES (Execution Date: July 28)

Joe Nathan James, Jr. killed Faith Hall in 1994. There doesn’t seem to be...

July 22, 2022

LITTLE ROCK IS MURDER ROCK!

*Words delivered to the Little Rock City Director's meeting on July 19, 2022. LITTLE...

July 20, 2022

Will Eaton: The Unspoken Arizona Murder Victim of the July 7, 2016 Shooting in Dallas, Texas

Will Eaton: The Unspoken Victim of the July 7, 2016 Shooting in Dallas, Texas...

July 15, 2022

Kosoul Chanthakoummane: On the Nature of Execution and Doubt (Of Course in Texas)

Kosoul Chanthakoummane: On the Nature of Execution and Doubt (Of Course in Texas) ...