“We live in the most supposedly Christian society in global history and yet we can’y seem to morally advance enough to stop killing each other…” -Arthur Brown, Jr. The Coming Chamber: On the Human Experience, Moral Imagination and Arthur Brown, Jr. The execution chamber is a symptom of a much larger disease. You see, these are dangerous times. Our ability to interact with each other is limitless. Yet, our understanding of our common humanity seems to decline with... Read more
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 The Fight for Arthur Brown: Brady Violations, Love & The Struggle to Save a Life There is danger in looking for God. For, sometimes in our looking we miss the finding. Arthur Brown wasn’t at the top of my list. In fact, I didn’t even know who he was until about nine months ago or so. You see, I was working on the case of another guy on death row when Brown’s... Read more
*This letter was submitted and should appear in multiple Oklahoma newspapers in the coming days. Dear Editor. What a curious moment in political theatrics. Representative Kevin McDugle’s press conference calling for a death penalty moratorium was filled with various assurances that he is still for the death penalty. Repeatedly, McDugle said he just wants to get it right. Does he not understand that there is nothing to get right? Actually, I think he does. Which is what... Read more
*The complete text of Orationes Mortuorum: 40 guided meditations based on the last words of the last 40 people who’ve been executed in the United States (as of 2/1/2023). If you would like a print/ereader copy with pictures : CLICK HERE Orationes Mortuorum (Prayers of the Dead) A Lenten Series, 2023 Jeff Hood Sponsored by: Saint Miriam Parish and Friary Death Penalty Action Clergy United Against the Death Penalty Red Letter Christians The season of Lent is about grief. It... Read more
February 16, 2023 The Emmanuel Littlejohn Tapes: A Summary *This is a summarization of an extended interview/podcast conducted with Emmanuel Littlejohn about his life and case. Full podcast located @ https://open.spotify.com/show/4zqmTtVJzyggmitxwyg9tV I didn’t have to do anything…although sometimes it felt like I did. We all make choices in life. I made some bad ones. But at the end of the day, I’m the one that has had to live with those choices. So,... Read more
Press Inquiries/Further Information: Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood (Anthony Sanchez Spiritual Advisor) / [email protected] / 404-210-6760 THE DAD DID IT / THE SON IS ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED FOR IT #FREEANTHONYSANCHEZ On December 20, 1996, the body of Jewell Busken was found near Lake Stanley Draper in Cleveland County, Oklahoma. There was single gunshot wound to the back of her head. For several years, the offense was considered unsolved by authorities. On July 26, 2004, an Oklahoma State Bureau... Read more
THEOSEMANTICS amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSP9FMHT?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk With regards to spirituality, words should have a certain amount of elasticity to them…meaning they should spring us to something else…something beyond words. I haven’t always thought this way. In fact, I used to think that words were set. I used to believe that God was bound by our words. I believed in the inerrant infallible word of God. Then, I started thinking about what the word was. Which word or which set of... Read more
January 22, 2023 The Anthony Sanchez Story: Prison Conversations *This is a paraphrased interview with Anthony Sanchez, who was wrongly convicted of killing Juli Busken (murdered in Norman, Oklahoma in 1996) and sits on death row scheduled for execution in the coming months. Jeff Hood: When was the first time that you heard the name Juli Busken? Anthony Sanchez: There were some officers who came to the prison that I... Read more
Nonviolent Activism, Stress and a Major Victory in Oklahoma: On Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Motion to Delay Executions Less than a week ago, I peacefully stood next to the gurney while the State of Oklahoma killed Scott Eizember. I didn’t arrive at that place of ministry easily. In fact, the Department of Corrections (DOC) was determined to make sure that I wasn’t allowed to be there. Undeterred, fellow activists (and lawyer allies) and I launched a campaign to... Read more
“To be absent from the body is to be present with God.” Scott Eizember’s final days were filled with talk of what was to come. While we both had questions, I have no doubt that we both had hope. I guess hope is often the best we can do. Of course, faith is the outcome of hope…even the assurance of things hoped for. In Scott’s final days, he developed hope…a lasting hope. So often, we try to make... Read more
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