Suffocation by Design - Softcover

Hood, Jeff

 
9798990438736: Suffocation by Design
Softcover
ISBN 13: 9798990438736
Verlag: BleakHouse Publishing, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Suffocation by Design: The Story of America's Newest Execution Method examines America's newest execution method, nitrogen hypoxia, combining legal analysis, historical documentation and Jeff Hood's firsthand testimony as a spiritual advisor to two condemned men who suffered greatly during their executions. The book meticulously examines judicial reasoning across federal courts, documenting how judges approached constitutional challenges to nitrogen hypoxia and how deference to state expertise enabled continued use despite observable suffering. Hood situates nitrogen hypoxia within the broader pattern of American execution methods, each introduced with promises of humanity only to reveal new violence. His central argument is damning: nitrogen hypoxia was sold as humane but delivers torture. The book stands as scholarly documentation and prophetic witness-a refusal to let the state sanitize violence or erase the humanity of those it kills.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is a theologian, writer and activist who has spent years ministering to people on death row. As a spiritual advisor and witness to executions, he speaks out against state violence and calls for a society rooted in justice, mercy and the sacredness of life.

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Verlag
BleakHouse Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 13 
9798990438736
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
362
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