The Execution Omnibus, 2022 2025: Volume II: Collaborations: 2

There are thirty books, total, in this collection, each with its own character and claims.While the first volume, The Campaigns for the Departed, is a record of Jeff Hood's presence with specific men facing execution dates, the second volume, Collaborations, is something rarer: a record of what happens when Hood works not just for the men on death row, but with them. These are the books produced in genuine creative and spiritual partnership - with David Hosier, with Casey McWhorter, with Anthony Sanchez, with Bart Johnson, with Keith LaMar, with Thomas Ferguson, with the condemned men of Mississippi and the forty executed people whose last words Hood gathered into Lenten disciplines. The collaborations reveal a dimension of Hood's ministry that the campaign writings can only suggest: that he does not see the condemned as objects of advocacy but as persons capable of producing work that will outlast both themselves and the system that destroyed them.The second volume also contains Whispers of Silenced Voices. Written primarily by Lisa Taylor-Clarke, a British social worker and Hood's friend who loved Casey McWhorter for fifteen years and watched Alabama execute him, the book gathers the testimonies of condemned men's families and demands that the death penalty's grief - the grief it produces in people who committed no crime - be recognized as a structural harm, not a private sorrow.

Pagina's: 316, Paperback, Complicit Press