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2025-11-23T23:57:11-06:00

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The Yearning of a Revolutionary: On Luigi Mangione’s Why

Last updated on: November 23, 2025 at 11:57 pm By Jeff Hood

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Luigi Mangione, Krishnamurti and Christ: A Theological Meditation on the Yearning of a Revolutionary UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan on December 4, 2024; Luigi Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania on December 9, 2024, and has been charged in state and federal court. As of September 2025, terrorism enhancement charges in the state case were dismissed, though Mangione still faces a state murder charge and separate federal charges, and federal prosecutors have signaled they... Read more

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2025-11-22T22:27:57-06:00

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“Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise”: Christ the King

Last updated on: November 22, 2025 at 10:27 pm By Jeff Hood

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Christ the King = Above Injustice and the Work of Liberation Christ the King? The crucifixion scene in Luke 23:35-43 is one of the most profound confrontations between divine love and human injustice in all of Scripture. In these few verses, the world reveals its cruelty, its derision, its willingness to mock suffering and weaponize despair. Yet in the very same moment, Christ reveals a kingdom built not on domination but on mercy, justice and solidarity with the oppressed. The... Read more

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2025-11-20T13:16:31-06:00

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Being Adopted Should Bar A Death Sentence

Last updated on: November 20, 2025 at 1:16 pm By Jeff Hood

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Why Adoption-Related Mitigation Should Prevent the Execution of Richard Barry Randolph (now Malik Abdul-Sajjad) Capital punishment is supposed to be reserved for the most morally culpable offenders…people whose actions reflect a fully developed capacity for judgment and responsibility. That is precisely why the law requires that all mitigating evidence be weighed before a death sentence can be imposed. In Richard Barry Randolph (now Malik Abdul-Sajjad)’s case (Florida Execution / November 20, 2024), the context of his adoption and early development... Read more

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2025-11-19T12:31:52-06:00

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Anthony Boyd Leg Lift = 19 Minutes of Conscious Suffering

Last updated on: November 19, 2025 at 12:31 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Chamber and the Promise: Anthony Boyd Leg Lift “6:16 in Alabama: On The Leg Lift That Defined a Nitrogen Execution” I entered the chamber at 5:50 p.m.. Every step felt impossibly heavy, as if the air itself resisted my presence. Anthony Boyd lay strapped to the gurney…calm, alert and fully aware of the inevitability gathering around him. As Anthony’s spiritual advisor, I’d walked with him through hours of reflection, prayer and preparation. I understood the weight of the... Read more

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2025-11-16T01:16:12-06:00

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Ms. Shade Schuler: Black Transgender Lives Matter

Last updated on: November 16, 2025 at 1:16 am By Jeff Hood

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Every year, as Transgender Day of Remembrance approaches (Thursday, November 20, 2025), my mind nor heart is ever far from Ms. Shade Schuler. You don’t plan to be pulled into a story like Ms. Shade Schuler’s. It arrives the way grief often does…quiet at first, almost like a rumor, something you think you can set aside. But then a detail catches your breath. Then another. And before long, you realize the story is not waiting to be read. It is... Read more

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2025-11-14T13:14:41-06:00

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Luigi Mangione and the Presumption of Innocence

Last updated on: November 14, 2025 at 1:14 pm By Jeff Hood

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When the Courtroom Is Replaced by the Internet : On Sensationalism, Luigi Mangione and the Presumption of Innocence In our era of instant outrage, a person’s life can be decided with a click, a share or a viral post long before a single courtroom door swings open. Luigi Mangione knows this all too well. One photo, one snippet of information, one sensationalized headline and suddenly millions of people feel entitled to pass judgment. In the eyes of the public, he... Read more

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2025-11-12T21:48:57-06:00

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100 Year Wait for Execution: Bryan Jennings & Richard Jordan

Last updated on: November 12, 2025 at 9:48 pm By Jeff Hood

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Almost a Century of Delay: What the Cases of Bryan Jennings and Richard Jordan Reveal Later today, the state of Florida is scheduled to execute Bryan Jennings, convicted of the 1979 kidnapping, rape and murder of six-year-old Becky Kunash on Merritt Island. Jennings was 20 years old at the time of the crime. Now, he is 66. If carried out, his execution will be Florida’s sixteenth of the year and among the longest-delayed executions in modern U.S. history…46 years from... Read more

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2025-11-11T17:55:47-06:00

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Dr. Jonathan Groner and the Anatomy of an Execution

Last updated on: November 11, 2025 at 5:55 pm By Jeff Hood

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The Truth About an Execution and Dr. Jonathan Groner Every few years, conversations about capital punishment circles back to the question of method. Lethal injection goes wrong. A state revives the electric chair. Someone mentions the firing squad. A nitrogen execution takes way too long. Then the same old arguments begin again…legal, moral and procedural. In the middle of all the present noise, one voice keeps insisting on something simple and stubborn…the truth about what actually happens to a human... Read more

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2025-11-11T00:39:09-06:00

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A Plea to New York: No Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione

Last updated on: November 11, 2025 at 12:39 am By Jeff Hood

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No Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione : A Spiritual Plea I’m not a New Yorker, but I write with urgency and a heavy heart. The last person executed in New York was Eddie Lee Mays on August 15, 1963. For decades, New York has stood apart from much of the nation…rejecting the death penalty and affirming that even those who commit the gravest crimes are entitled to due process and the possibility of redemption. That principle is more than law…it’s... Read more

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2025-11-08T12:21:45-06:00

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A Love That Rages: Jesus Destroys the Temple

Last updated on: November 8, 2025 at 12:21 pm By Jeff Hood

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Jesus Destroys the Temple A Love That Rages: John 2:13–22 As Passover approached, Jesus went up to Jerusalem and found the temple courts filled with merchants selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and money-changers sitting at tables. Out of righteous anger, he made a whip of cords, drove them all out, overturned their tables, and scattered their coins. He declared, “Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” When challenged for a sign of his authority, he said, “Destroy this temple, and... Read more

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