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2026-03-24T22:11:52-06:00

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The Self-Immolation of Willie B Phillips

Last updated on: March 24, 2026 at 10:11 pm By Jeff Hood

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Fire in the New South: The Self-Immolation of Willie B Phillips in Atlanta, Georgia October 7, 1972 On October 7, 1972, as a public parade (organized by Morris Brown College) moved through the streets of downtown Atlanta part of the city’s effort to present itself as a center of progress in the years following the major legislative victories of the Civil Rights era. Crowds gathered along the route watching as Atlanta projected an image of order growth and racial moderation.... Read more

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2026-03-21T19:44:33-06:00

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Untie Him: Lazarus and the Work of Liberation

Last updated on: March 21, 2026 at 7:44 pm By Jeff Hood

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Lazarus and the Anatomy of a Miracle In the 11th Chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus is told that his friend Lazarus is gravely ill…but instead of going immediately he delays. By the time he arrives Lazarus has been dead for four days and his sisters are grieving. Martha meets Jesus and expresses both faith and disappointment…believing he could have prevented her brother’s death. Jesus tells her that he is the resurrection and the life and calls her to... Read more

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2026-03-18T08:11:13-06:00

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Oklahoma’s Invention of Nitrogen Hypoxia Executions

Last updated on: March 18, 2026 at 8:11 am By Jeff Hood

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The “Fool-Proof” Execution Method : How Oklahoma’s Invention of Nitrogen Hypoxia Executions Repeated an Old Mistake On April 29, 2014, the execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma took forty agonizing minutes. Lockett writhed, groaned and attempted to lift himself from the gurney as the lethal injection drugs failed to work as intended. The scene, witnessed by journalists and officials alike, became national news…and set off a chain of events that would lead Oklahoma to pioneer a new method of execution... Read more

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2026-03-16T08:39:10-06:00

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Distributed Culpability and the Execution of Michael King

Last updated on: March 16, 2026 at 8:39 am By Jeff Hood

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A Confluence of Evil: Michael King, Distributed Culpability & the Murder of Denise Amber Lee The Illusion of Simple Justice When Michael King is executed on March 17 2026 the state of Florida will declare that justice has been served. In the narrowest legal sense perhaps it has. King kidnapped raped and murdered Denise Amber Lee in January 2008 and he will die for it. But Denise Lee did not die because one evil man wanted her dead. She died... Read more

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2026-03-14T21:41:15-06:00

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I Once Was Blind, But Now I See: A Prophetic Witness

Last updated on: March 14, 2026 at 9:41 pm By Jeff Hood

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I Once Was Blind, But Now I See: A Prophetic Witness for a Time of Moral Crisis A man is sitting in the dust. He has sat there his entire life…not by choice, but by circumstance. He was born blind, and in the world he inhabits, that means he was also born poor, born dependent, born outside the circle of the respectable. Every day, he takes his place at the edge of the road and waits for someone to show... Read more

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2026-03-11T01:28:23-06:00

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A Strange Witness: Cedric Ricks Said He Wanted to Die.

Last updated on: March 11, 2026 at 1:28 am By Jeff Hood

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A Strange Witness I have been inside enough courtrooms to know that they lie to us. They dress themselves up in wood paneling and procedure and the careful language of the law and they ask us to believe that what happens inside them is precise. Measured. Just. Then something like Cedric Ricks’ testimony happens and the whole performance falls apart. What Happened When Cedric Ricks Took the Stand Cedric Ricks is scheduled to die today in Texas. Before the state... Read more

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2026-03-04T23:31:08-06:00

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An Appeal to Join the Execution Intervention Project

Last updated on: March 4, 2026 at 11:31 pm By Jeff Hood

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A Letter from The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood Founder, Execution Intervention Project How Moral Failure Forms We tend to think of moral failure as something explosive and obvious…a headline event, a singular action that can be pointed to, condemned, and punished. This way of thinking is comforting because it allows us to believe that wrongdoing is rare and easily identifiable. Yet most harm does not erupt out of nowhere. It forms slowly. It gathers in the unnoticed corners of the... Read more

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2026-03-01T00:24:09-06:00

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Dissociation is the Root of War

Last updated on: March 1, 2026 at 12:24 am By Jeff Hood

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Dissociation and The Geography of the Chest There is a geography of the chest. A ribcage that arches like a vaulted ceiling. Lungs that open and close like uncertain wings. A heart the size of a fist…always a fist. When a bomb falls on a city you have never visited, in a country your leaders call an enemy, something in this geography shifts. We are trained not to notice it. We are trained to call that distance objectivity, to call... Read more

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2026-02-28T13:48:28-06:00

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Transfiguration & Geopolitics: Listening in an Age of War

Last updated on: February 28, 2026 at 1:48 pm By Jeff Hood

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Matthew 17:1-9 Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a high mountain by themselves, and there, before their eyes, His appearance was transformed—His face shining like the sun and His clothes becoming dazzling white. Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared and began talking with Him. Overwhelmed, Peter blurted out, “Lord, it’s good for us to be here. If You want, I’ll set up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” While he was... Read more

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2026-02-24T17:29:45-06:00

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor : Hollow Words Without Action

Last updated on: February 24, 2026 at 5:29 pm By Jeff Hood

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor is Troubled, and Voting Yes Anyway Justice Sonia Sotomayor is troubled. She wants you to know that. In her statement accompanying the Supreme Court’s denial of a stay of execution for Melvin Trotter, she spends four pages cataloguing her concerns about Florida’s secretive, potentially botched execution practices…expired drugs, incorrect doses, nonprotocol substances, suspicious recordkeeping gaps. It is, frankly, a damning indictment of a state that may be torturing people to death behind a veil of bureaucratic opacity.... Read more

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