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  • The Weight of Someone Else’s Sin
    Jeff Hood
    Clarance Goode, Jr. has been on Oklahoma’s death row for nearly nineteen years for three murders he did not commit.No DNA. No fingerprints. No weapons. No physical evidence of any kind placing him at the Thompson house on the night of August 25, 2005. What the state had was the word of a woman who had threatened her brother’s life and was never charged, the word of a man who to...
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    7,95 €

  • THE LIE OF THE CLEAN KILL
    Jeff Hood
    There is no clean way to take a human life.For a century, we have pretended otherwise. The rope became the chair. The chair became the gas chamber. The gas chamber became the needle. Each method was sold as more humane than the last. Each one proved to be a lie.Now, Idaho has made the firing squad its primary method of execution. The first state in modern history to do so.Somew...
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    21,88 €

  • I Will Lose Nothing
    Jeff Hood
    Dennis Sochor was scheduled to die at Florida State Prison. The state called him condemned. Scripture says otherwise.In these six pieces, author, activist, and death row spiritual advisor Jeff Hood accompanies Dennis through his final days...a man who refused a last meal so he could fast and pray, who renamed the gurney his 'journey gurney,' who gave away everything he owned wh...
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    7,95 €

  • Nobody Is There
    Jeff Hood
    On August 18, 2026, the State of Florida executed William Silvia. The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood was in the chamber. His hand was on Will’s leg when the poison started.William heard voices. Conversations constantly all around him, and nobody was ever there. In 2012, this very sick man asked the State of Florida to help him die faster. The State said yes and held him to it for fourteen ...
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    6,81 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    Locked out of the statehouse, the argument went looking for a reader. Four novels, a poem written in a prison cell, the first English translation of a Catalan address, and the study that went looking for deterrence in the returns and came back empty.After the Civil War, the American abolition movement lost the floor it had spent thirty years winning. The scaffold went behind th...
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    23,05 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    The decade the argument almost won. A systematic American theology of abolition, the most quoted journalism ever written against the gallows, Frederick Douglass tying the scaffold to the auction block, and a novel that makes a murderer’s soul the reader’s problem.Between 1844 and 1869 the movement produced everything it would need. Charles Spear made abolition a system and wrot...
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    23,08 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    These are the decades when the argument learned to work in a legislature.In 1790, English law prescribed hanging for one hundred and sixty offenses. Stealing could get you killed. By 1841 a committee of the New York State Assembly was recommending that the death penalty be ended outright, and the legislature ordered ten times the usual number of copies printed.This volume cover...
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    17,11 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    Every state in history has killed people. For most of that history, nobody thought it needed defending.The argument against it is supposed to begin in 1764. That year, an Italian named Cesare Beccaria published a short book saying the state had no right to take a life, and Europe began to listen. Every history of the death penalty starts there.This volume exists because that da...
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    17,69 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    In a study in Florence around 1760, a thirty-year-old nobleman named Giuseppe Pelli worked out the argument that would make Cesare Beccaria famous - and then put the manuscript in a drawer, where it stayed for two hundred and fifty years. Four years later, Beccaria published substantially the same case in Livorno. Within a decade, Tuscany had abolished the death penalty outrigh...
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    17,21 €

  • Essays on the Punishment of Death
    Jeff Hood / Kat Bodrie
    In 1844 a Boston minister sat down to end the death penalty by argument alone.Charles Spear gave sixteen essays to the task. He went at the gallows from every side. He counted the jurors who would not convict because conviction meant a hanging. He counted the men who watched an execution in the morning and killed someone by nightfall. He counted the innocent...the farmer hanged...
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    14,13 €

  • Observations on the Criminal Law of England
    Jeff Hood / Samuel Romilly
    In 1810, England had more than two hundred capital offenses on its statute books. Stealing five shillings from a shop was a hanging offense. So was stealing forty shillings from a house. And almost nobody was hanged for either. Of more than eighteen hundred people committed for trial in London for theft from a dwelling in seven years, eight were executed. The law said death. Th...
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    6,78 €

  • Under Sentence of Death or The Last Day of a Condemned Man
    Jeff Hood
    In 1829, Victor Hugo sat down to write the last weeks of a man the state intended to kill. He did not name the man. He did not name the crime. He understood that naming either would let the reader off.This is that book, set in Tehran in 2026.A man sits in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. He has been convicted of enmity against God. He has been convicted of spreading corruption on earth...
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    7,82 €

  • The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death
    Jeff Hood
    Basil Montagu did not write an argument against the death penalty. He did something harder to answer. He collected them.Beginning in 1809, a London barrister set out to gather every serious published opinion on capital punishment into one place and let the accumulated weight settle the question. He included his opponents. Paley, the most formidable defender of the English gallo...
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    6,97 €

  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
    Jeff Hood
    In 1764 a twenty-six-year-old Milanese aristocrat published a small book, anonymously, because he was afraid of what would happen to him. Within three years it had been translated across Europe, placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, and read by Voltaire, Blackstone, Jefferson, and Benjamin Rush. Within twenty-two years the Grand Duke of Tuscany had read it and abolished the d...
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    9,95 €

  • Considerations
    Jeff Hood
    Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence. The year after the Bill of Rights was ratified he published the first sustained American argument that the state should stop killing people.This is that argument, newly modernized.Rush was a Philadelphia physician. He founded the first American antislavery society. He founded the first prison reform society in the country. I...
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    6,72 €

  • Argument Against Capital Punishment
    Edward Livingston / Jeff Hood
    In 1833, Edward Livingston handed the Louisiana legislature a complete criminal code with no death penalty in it. He was a former mayor of New York, a future Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson, and the most respected legal mind in the country. Jeremy Bentham built a correspondence around him. Victor Hugo counted him among the men of the age who had deserved most and best o...
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    6,87 €

  • Against the Death Penalty
    Jeff Hood
    Three years before Cesare Beccaria published the book that changed European criminal law, a Florentine civil servant sat down and wrote the first systematic case against the death penalty in the modern West.Then he stopped. He never finished it. He never published it. The manuscript sat in a family archive for more than two centuries before scholars found it and understood what...
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    7,23 €

  • Suffocation by Design
    Jeff Hood
    When Alabama carried out the first execution by nitrogen hypoxia in January 2024, officials promised the public a humane, painless death.Jeff Hood was in the execution chamber. A priest who has accompanied condemned men to their final moments, Hood witnessed the nation’s newest method of execution firsthand. What he saw-and what he documents here-stands in stark contrast to the...
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    26,74 €

  • Of Love & Justice
    Jeff Hood
    The path Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood took is a long way from the ministry he imagined when he was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister at The Rock Baptist Church in Rex, Georgia, in June 12, 2006. Since then, he’s marched in protests, attended twelve executions, become a priest in the Old Catholicism tradition, and written countless sermons, op-eds, and blog posts about love and just...
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    14,50 €

  • TOO OLD TO KILL
    Jeff Hood
    Dusty Ray Spencer was seventy-four years old. He was a Marine. He was a man Florida decided to kill.Too Old to Kill is Jeff Hood’s real-time chronicle of the final weeks before Spencer’s execution on June 25, 2026...the oldest person put to death in Florida’s modern history. It moves from legal argument to open letter to sermon to grief. It shows a case built on a death sentenc...
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    9,47 €

  • The Least of These
    Dan Kiniry / Jeff Hood
    Homelessness is not just a social problem. It is a theological location.We have built entire theologies around buildings, budgets, and belonging. We have almost none built around not having a place to lay your head.In Matthew 25, Jesus does not say 'you served the homeless.' He says, 'you served me.' That small shift changes everything.The Least of These is a collection of essa...
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    10,46 €

  • THE MONSTER
    Jeff Hood
    In The Monster: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity and the Death Penalty, Jeff Hood dismantles the convenient myth that monsters are born fundamentally different from the rest of us. Through a series of profound and unflinching essays, Hood traces the slow birth of monstrosity within ordinary human conditions...trauma, neglect, humiliation, and social fa...
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    9,47 €

  • Wellness from Death Row
    Jeff Hood / Paul Everett
    Paul Everett has spent more than two decades on death row. He has no gym, no kitchen, no freedom of movement and no certain future. He is also, by any honest measure, one of the most psychologically well people you will ever encounter.This book is his account of how that is possible - and why it matters to you.Wellness from Death Row is not a book about incarceration. It is a b...
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    13,23 €

  • The Deliverance of Hope
    Jeff Hood / Wendy Ramage
    The Deliverance of Hope is a guide to one of the most quietly radical acts a person can undertake: writing letters to someone on death row. Authors Wendy Ramage and Jeff Hood...veterans of this practice...don’t sell it as charity work or activism. They call it what it is: a spiritual discipline that will cost you something, and give you far more than you expected.Drawing on yea...
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    14,26 €

  • Slaughterhouses
    Jeff Hood
    On the morning of an execution, two rooms are running.In one, a condemned man is strapped to a table while witnesses watch through glass. In the other-somewhere across the country, on the same morning-a line of animals moves toward a room they can smell. Both rooms have been designed so that those who benefit from them need not be present. Both depend, for their continuation, o...
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    13,99 €

  • The People v. Luigi Mangione
    Alli Sullivan / Jeff Hood
    When a CEO is shot on a Manhattan sidewalk and the accused becomes an internet folk hero, what does justice actually require?In December 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Midtown hotel. Within days, Luigi Mangione-a 26-year-old valedictorian with no prior record-was in federal custody. Within weeks, the internet had made him a saint. Within mon...
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    10,65 €

  • The Embodiment of Abolition
    Alli Sullivan / Jeff Hood
    What does it cost to stand beside the condemned?In The Embodiment of Abolition, death penalty abolitionists Jeff Hood and Alli Sullivan offer an unflinching account of life on the front lines of the fight against state killing. This is not a book of statistics or detached policy arguments. It is a raw, embodied testimony from two activists who have written the letters, made the...
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    14,21 €

  • The Boy from Bed-Stuy
    Jeff Hood
    A man is scheduled to die. The question is whether he should.The Boy from Bed-Stuy is a searing, meticulously documented account of Shawn Rogers-a man sentenced to death for a brutal prison killing-and the life that led him there. From a childhood shaped by foster care, poverty, head trauma, and institutional failure to the violence that changed multiple lives forever, this boo...
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    8,03 €

  • The Jonestown Trilogy
    Jeff Hood
    The Jonestown Trilogy gathers three landmark works by Jeff Hood into a single volume - a sustained, unflinching theological descent into one of the darkest events of the twentieth century.On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred people died in the Guyanese jungle under the command of Jim Jones. For most, Jonestown is shorthand for fanaticism, a punchline, a cautionary tale. For ...
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    15,33 €

  • Theosemantics
    Jeff Hood
    What if the most important spiritual words-God, Love, Justice, Freedom-have not lost their meaning, but are waiting to be lived again?THEOSEMANTICS is not a systematic theology. It is not a self-help program. It is not a defense of religion as you’ve known it.It is an invitation.Across eighteen interconnected books, Jeff Hood reclaims the language at the center of human existen...
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    23,66 €


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