Death Row Pastor Issues Firing Squad Warning: ‘Stand Down America’
Summary
Reverend Jeff Hood is traveling across the United States to speak against the use of firing squads for executing prisoners. This comes as the military plans to carry out the first firing squad execution since World War II, following issues with lethal injection executions in some states.Key Facts
- Reverend Jeff Hood has advised more than a dozen inmates who were executed and is against the death penalty.
- He started a campaign called "Firing Back" to highlight problems with firing squad executions.
- The military will execute Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad on December 3, the first since World War II.
- President Donald Trump approved the execution and initially planned to livestream it but later canceled the livestream after public criticism.
- Trump said victim families can watch the execution in person and called it justice.
- Hood believes firing squads are promoted as a solution to problems with lethal injections but argues that no execution method is truly humane or painless.
- Hood hopes to make the issue part of the discussion before the November midterm elections.
- He warns that teaching people to use violence through executions is not a good message for the nation.
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