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*Earlier today, I released all of my writings on the June 11, 2024 execution of my friend David Hosier in Missouri.\u00a0 Below is the chapter that I wrote about Hosier\u2019s execution.\u00a0 The entire book \u201cTHE DAVID HOSIER STORY: Writings from a Campaign\u201d is available for purchase here<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Execution of David Hosier: The Final Full Account<\/p>\n

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David Hosier gave me a tremendous gift.\u00a0 Over the final few months of David\u2019s life, he let me in.\u00a0 While this might not sound extraordinary to many, for David there\u2019d only been a few times that he\u2019d let anyone into his life.\u00a0 Make no mistake, I loved David Hosier very much.\u00a0 Every ounce of access that he gave me into his life, I tried my best to return.\u00a0 Innocent or guilty, David was loved.\u00a0 It\u2019s an important place to begin.\u00a0 There is so much noise amidst an execution.\u00a0 There are so many messages that so many people try to get out.\u00a0 Sometimes we forget the most important message, love.\u00a0 Let it be known far and wide, David and I both shared a deep belief that love covers a multitude of sins.<\/p>\n

For hours, I\u2019d sat outside waiting on the moment to come.\u00a0 There was a large gap of time between my final visit with David and the actual execution.\u00a0 To say that there isn\u2019t much to do in Bonne Terre would be an understatement.\u00a0 Luckily, I was able to find a small Mexican restaurant to pass a few of those hours, but I largely just sat in my car and thought about what was to come.\u00a0 It was awful.\u00a0 I just sat and stewed in my sorrow.\u00a0 I was just so sad for David and so many others that were about to perpetuate a completely unnecessary evil against him.\u00a0 I wondered about the families of Angela and Rodney Gilpin.\u00a0 What would it be like to yearn so hard for revenge, only to find that it wasn\u2019t as sweet as you thought it was going to be?\u00a0 I knew they were about to face one of the biggest letdowns of their lives.\u00a0 Killing David wouldn\u2019t do anything to help them.\u00a0 Quite the contrary, it was only going to cause them more pain.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t keep on thinking about it all.\u00a0 I had to get my mind right.\u00a0 Every thought just seemed to bounce in every direction.\u00a0 How do you quiet a mind when you know that murder is coming?<\/p>\n

When I pulled up, the place looked like Fort Knox.\u00a0 I was surprised by how quickly the prison became the most important place in Missouri in a matter of hours.\u00a0 The car was searched very thoroughly.\u00a0 Who would be stupid enough to try to bring something in at this point?\u00a0 Eventually, a police van pulled up to escort me to a parking spot right up front.\u00a0 I had a reserved spot for the execution of David Hosier.\u00a0 The heat was overwhelming.\u00a0 I fumbled around in the car to make sure that I had everything that I needed.\u00a0 Of course, the guys in the van were behind me watching my every move.\u00a0 It\u2019s difficult to make sure that you have everything when you know that there are people behind you who would love nothing more than for you to make a mistake.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I had my identification.\u00a0 I had my copy of the New Testament with other verses and prayers written in.\u00a0 I checked my pockets and robe one more time.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to take anything in by accident.\u00a0 It\u2019s all such a mess.\u00a0 Then\u2026 \u00a0\u201cDr. Hood?\u201d\u00a0 One of the members of their elite squad was ready for me to follow him.\u00a0 I did. \u00a0\u00a0What other choice did I have?<\/p>\n

When I reached the entrance, I saw a familiar face.\u00a0 During the execution orientation (yes, it\u2019s a thing) a few days earlier, I\u2019d met the Assistant Warden.\u00a0 I found him to be incredibly kind and engaging.\u00a0 It was clear that he didn\u2019t want to be a part of this process at all.\u00a0 I found his admitted moral uncertainty to be comforting in a space of such feigned moral superiority.\u00a0 While we waited to proceed toward the execution chamber, we proceeded to a few chairs.\u00a0 He was shocked that I sat in the chair right next to him.\u00a0 Little did he know, I sometimes struggle to hear in such spaces.\u00a0 I just wanted to make sure that I could hear him.\u00a0 Obviously, I wasn\u2019t trying to get fresh.\u00a0 I was curious to engage him.\u00a0 We started by talking about the nature of punishment versus rehabilitation.\u00a0 When I brought up the success of various prison systems in Europe that limit sentences and emphasize rehabilitation, he was quick to reply, \u201cI really admire much of what they do over there.\u201d\u00a0 I was shocked and immediately asked, \u201cWhat keeps y\u2019all from implementing such practices here?\u201d\u00a0 He responded swiftly, \u201cMoney and will.\u00a0 Nobody in their right mind looks at this prison and thinks it\u2019s the best we can do.\u201d\u00a0 Though astounded, I wanted to ask one more question, \u201cDo you feel guilty being part of all of this?\u201d\u00a0 He responded clearly, \u201cIt\u2019s my job.\u00a0 I wish none of it had to happened.\u201d\u00a0 I found him to be very sincere.\u00a0 I appreciated his candor and wanted to ask a few more questions.\u00a0 But our time was up.\u00a0 On his radio, I heard a voice declare, \u201cWe\u2019re ready.\u201d\u00a0 I knew what that meant.\u00a0 The door in front of us opened.\u00a0 Though I desperately did not want to, I put one foot in front of the other.\u00a0 I owed it to David.<\/p>\n

Something happened.\u00a0 Everything got dark and all noises were gone.\u00a0 I was laser-focused on what I had to do next.\u00a0 Then, I felt a hand on my arm.\u00a0 \u201cHey brother, she needs to see your ID.\u201d\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t figure out why they needed to see my ID so many times.\u00a0 I pushed it up against the glass.\u00a0 Leaning forward, the woman behind the dark glass gave me the thumbs up and put her hands together in prayer.\u00a0 It was as if I could only see her hands.\u00a0 Then, the Assistant Warden led me on.\u00a0 The huge door opened loudly and shut just as loudly behind us as we walked through.\u00a0 The Assistant Warden kept talking to me, but I wasn\u2019t paying attention anymore.\u00a0 David was the only thing on my mind.\u00a0 We were stuck at the next door.\u00a0 Obviously, somebody forgot that we were coming through.\u00a0 It was very strange.\u00a0 One would think that as much as they practice these executions that there would be no delay.\u00a0 The Assistant Warden radioed ahead.\u00a0 I could sense his frustration boiling up.\u00a0 Then, after a few more minutes the door opened.\u00a0 I accidentally stepped on my robe and stumbled a bit.\u00a0 Not so much that I was going to fall, but more so that it reminded me that I needed to remember to walk.\u00a0 Once I entered the waiting area, I noticed something that I\u2019d seen at many other executions.\u00a0 Employees of the Department of Corrections were just hanging out.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never understood how people can just chat amicably when someone is about to be murdered in the next room over any second.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have the will for any condemnations.\u00a0 I had to be present for David.\u00a0 We made it to the room next to the chamber, the control center of the entire operation.\u00a0 The Assistant Warden knocked, and the door quickly opened.\u00a0 Multiple officers guided me through a viewing room right next to the chamber to the place where I would go in to see David.\u00a0 The door shut behind me and I realized that the Assistant Warden was gone.\u00a0 When we passed through the next door, I noticed that the holding cell and all the equipment for the execution were right in front of me.\u00a0 I was turned sharply to a door to my left.\u00a0 There were so many doors that I didn\u2019t know what was going to be next.\u00a0 I started to breathe rapidly and grow more anxious by the second.\u00a0 \u201cWhat was taking so long?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cCan\u2019t this damn door just open?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat\u2019s in there?\u201d\u00a0 Within a millisecond of such thoughts, the door slid open and I realized that I\u2019d arrived at the epicenter of the house of horrors.<\/p>\n

Imagine a hospital room with mirrors for walls.\u00a0 Every direction you look, you see yourself.\u00a0 I stepped in.\u00a0 I looked to my right.\u00a0 David was directly in the middle of it all.\u00a0 There was a white sheet covering his entire body.\u00a0 There were lines running out from under the sheets that went through a hole in the wall. \u00a0\u201cHey brother.\u00a0 I\u2019m here.\u00a0 Just want you to know that I love you very much.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it was the right thing to say.\u00a0 I just spoke from my heart.\u00a0 That\u2019s the best you can do in a moment such as this.\u00a0 David motioned with his head for me to sit down in the chair next to him.\u00a0 He was clearly sedated.\u00a0 Immediately, I asked him about the sedation and other accommodations.\u00a0 He assured me that it was all taken care of.\u00a0 The green plastic chair was the only object of color in the entire room.\u00a0 It was the same as the chairs that visitors sit in in the visitation area.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t lost on me that somebody would soon unknowingly sit in the same chair that was present for the murder of a man.\u00a0 David had been unwell for weeks.\u00a0 He looked like death on the gurney.\u00a0 His skin was so grey and looked like it was growing greyer by the moment.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m glad you\u2019re here my friend,\u201d David replied.\u00a0 I put my hand on his shoulder and left it there the entire time.\u00a0 Like we\u2019d discussed previously, I started to read from the scriptures.\u00a0 Everything looked so medical.\u00a0 If one was not paying attention, it would be easy to mistake the room for something different than murder.\u00a0 I guess that\u2019s the point.\u00a0 \u201cGod is my shepherd.\u201d\u00a0 Though we were the only two who were physically in the room, I wanted him to know that we were being guided by something so much greater than the two of us.<\/p>\n

David wanted to make sure that I thanked everybody who\u2019d listened to him.\u00a0 Even in those final moments, it was clear that the biggest spot of liberation for David had been getting to tell his story.\u00a0 Such an achievement was my primary goal when we first connected.\u00a0 I was so grateful that he was approaching the end knowing that he\u2019d done it.\u00a0 \u201cI love you, Jeff.\u201d\u00a0 The words pierced my heart.\u00a0 I was surprised that he said them.\u00a0 David was not the biggest sharer of feelings. \u00a0Yet here we were.\u00a0 \u201cYe, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.\u201d\u00a0 I told David that we were walking right through that valley and that he\u2019d be meeting all that he ever loved in minutes.\u00a0 \u201cHe will restore your soul.\u201d\u00a0 I wanted him to know that the restoration would soon be made completely.\u00a0 I mentioned his dad.\u00a0 I mentioned his grandfather.\u00a0 I mentioned all those that had come before.\u00a0 I wanted him to know they were going to be part of the restoration.\u00a0 He then asked me a surprising question, \u201cAngela and Rodney too?\u201d\u00a0 I replied, \u201cabsolutely.\u201d\u00a0 The mention of the victims wasn\u2019t an admission of guilt as much as it was a genuine hope that all things would be restored.\u00a0 I assured him that faith was the assurance of things hoped for.\u00a0 Everything was about to be restored.<\/p>\n

One of the things that is most shocking about Missouri\u2019s execution chamber is that there are no instructions.\u00a0 There is nobody there to tell you that the execution has started.\u00a0 There is nobody there to tell you that the execution has ended.\u00a0 In every other state, there are announcements throughout the execution.\u00a0 Not in Missouri.\u00a0 It was just David and I.\u00a0 The only sound was the sound of my voice and the strained breaths of David.<\/p>\n

We continued to pray together.\u00a0 I encouraged David to repeat the following exhortation of the Apostle Paul with me, \u201cI have fought the good fight,\u00a0I have finished the race,\u00a0I have kept the faith.\u201d\u00a0 I kept telling him repeatedly how proud I was of him.\u00a0 In the midst of all the bullshit, he had stood his ground.\u00a0 The lawyers would not silence him.\u00a0 The press would not silence him.\u00a0 David was going to tell his story.\u00a0 David was going to live his story.\u00a0 Before I moved on to the next reading, David stopped me and said, \u201cDon\u2019t let what has happened to me happen to anybody else.\u00a0 Give em\u2019 hell, Jeff.\u00a0 Give em\u2019 hell.\u201d\u00a0 I told him that I would keep fighting.\u00a0 I told him that what was happening to him was wrong.\u00a0 I told him we would all keep fighting.\u00a0 I told him to listen to the words of Jesus in John 8.\u00a0 As I was flipping through the scriptures, I could hear the rustling of the curtains.\u00a0 I figured we were getting close.\u00a0 There was a camera above my head.\u00a0 I knew they were listening.\u00a0 \u201c\u2026this woman was caught in the act of adultery.\u00a0The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?\u201d\u00a0 David let a slight smile come to his face.\u00a0 He knew the story well.\u00a0 I told him that I was with him.\u00a0 I told him that I was down in the dirt with him.\u00a0 \u201cAll right but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!\u201d\u00a0 I said it loud enough so that all the executioners could hear.\u00a0 \u201cWhere are your accusers? Didn\u2019t even one of them condemn you?\u201d\u00a0 None of the executioners were bold enough to even enter the room.\u00a0 I was the only one there with David.\u00a0 I told him that he was now free to embody the words of Jesus forever, \u201cGo and sin no more.\u201d\u00a0 David exercised tremendous courage.\u00a0 He refused to let them see him afraid.<\/p>\n

Looking at my watch, I realized that time was drawing short.\u00a0 I skipped over to John 14. \u00a0\u201cLet not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me.\u201d\u00a0 David let out a few words, \u201cI believe brother.\u00a0 I believe.\u201d\u00a0 As I dug further into the verses descriptions of heaven, I could see a calm come over his face.\u00a0 David was ready to see God.\u00a0 David was ready to see the mansions that Jesus spoke of man centuries ago.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m ready.\u201d\u00a0 When I heard him utter those two words, I responded, \u201cKnow that I love you.\u00a0 Know that I\u2019m proud of you.\u00a0 Know that I love you.\u201d\u00a0 I\u00a0 wanted those to be the last words that he heard.\u00a0 His life was so full of missed chances and failed loves.\u00a0 I repeated those words of affirmation over and over.\u00a0 David responded, \u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a line running underneath my elbow.\u00a0 The tube was labeled, \u201c2.\u201d\u00a0 Clearly, this was the second line.\u00a0 When I saw the poison start to pass through the tube, I knew that the execution was in full swing.\u00a0 The fact that the death tube was so close was very tempting.\u00a0 I figured I could rip that thing out of the wall and buy David a little more time.\u00a0 Of course, such thoughts are but fleeting fantasies.\u00a0 The second such an event happened I would be removed from the chamber, never be able to help anyone again and they would still have killed David.\u00a0 Once you get to that point, it\u2019s over.\u00a0 The only thing one can do is pray that God will forgive them for doing nothing to stop a murder that is taking place in front of you.\u00a0 I prayed that David would forgive me too.<\/p>\n

I could tell that the poison was started to take effect.\u00a0 David\u2019s entire body began to change.\u00a0 One last time, David said, \u201cGive em\u2019 hell.\u201d\u00a0 I started reading the story of Jesus\u2019 passion.\u00a0 I spoke of forgiveness.\u00a0 I spoke of love.\u00a0 I spoke of pain.\u00a0 I spoke of the promise of eternal life.\u00a0 I leaned in.\u00a0 I wanted to hear that he was walking the exact same road that Jesus did.\u00a0 I wanted him to hear the words of Jesus on the cross, \u201cToday you will be with me in Paradise.\u201d\u00a0 I could feel him slipping away so quickly.\u00a0 I wanted to grab his soul and hold it to his body.\u00a0 I knew that I couldn\u2019t.\u00a0 I also knew that he would never want me to.\u00a0 David was going to be all right.\u00a0 It\u2019s the rest of us that are left to stew in this moral hell.\u00a0 Right when I read \u201cIt is finished\u201d I knew that David was gone.<\/p>\n

When I started to pull my hand up, it stuck to David.\u00a0 The sweat had gelled around his shoulder.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to let go.\u00a0 But I needed to commend his soul to God.\u00a0 I made the sign of the cross three times.\u00a0 I told him to go.\u00a0 I told him he was loved.\u00a0 But I told him that God loves him so much more than any of us ever could.\u00a0 I told him to go.\u00a0 I made the sign of the cross three more times.\u00a0 It was then, that I knew he was gone.<\/p>\n

David went from grey to greyer throughout the execution.\u00a0 Now, it was as if his entire body had turned to ash.\u00a0 Eventually, the door opened.\u00a0 One of the officers asked me to come out.\u00a0 I stopped and made the sign of the cross three times over his body.\u00a0 David looked more at peace than I\u2019d ever seen him look.\u00a0 I remembered his words.\u00a0 Then, I looked up to see myself in the mirror.\u00a0 Behind me, I saw every guy that I\u2019d accompanied to their executions.\u00a0 David was with them.\u00a0 They were all saying the same thing, \u201cGive em\u2019 hell.\u201d\u00a0 When I exited the room, I thought I was going to get to leave.\u00a0 You can\u2019t blame anybody for wanting to get out of such deadly lunacy.\u00a0 But I was forced to sit in a seat in the execution control center until everybody else had left.\u00a0 That was some of the longest fifteen minutes of my life.\u00a0 My mind raced about what could be happening next.\u00a0 Was I getting arrested?\u00a0 Did I do something wrong?\u00a0 What in the hell is going on?\u00a0 The guy at the desk was not interested in taking any of my questions.\u00a0 Eventually, the phone rang.\u00a0 It was time to go.\u00a0 The big door opened.\u00a0 Then, another big door opened.\u00a0 Eventually, I met up with the Assistant Warden again to be escorted out.\u00a0 He could tell that I was shaken.\u00a0 Who wouldn\u2019t be?\u00a0 He asked, \u201cAre you ok?\u201d\u00a0 It was a kind question.\u00a0 I just didn\u2019t know how to respond.\u00a0 I simply said, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time we reached the parking lot, there\u2019d been a bunch of small talk and I\u2019d past through multiple security checks.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember any of it.\u00a0 I just knew that I needed to tell the world what just happened.\u00a0 Before I got in the car, I gave the Assistant Warden a hug.\u00a0 I wanted him to know that they hadn\u2019t executed love\u2026they\u2019d only caused it to grow.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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