Execution Intervention Project

06/19/2026

In an online news conference Thursday, Dusty Spencer’s spiritual advisor, the Rev. Jeff Hood, challenged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, saying that if he wanted to go through with the ex*****on he should personally carry it out.

“When you talk about being tough, more ex*****ons, macho, let’s kill as many as we can. It’s pretty crazy when you don’t have to put any skin in the game,” Hood said. “… A governor that talks a big game, but doesn’t have to be present.”

Dusty Ray Spencer is slated to become the oldest person ever executed in Florida.

06/18/2026

The first thing that ever happened to Dusty Spencer was a war. He lost it before he could speak.

Something happens to a child raised under fire. The body learns the world is a threat. The nerves learn to brace. The soul learns that love and danger come through the same door. You can grow a man out of that child. You cannot grow the war out of the man. It stays in him. It waits in him. The country that would one day put a rifle in his hands did not give him his first wound. It found a boy already bleeding and decided he would make a good soldier.

Florida plans to execute Dusty Spencer, a 74-year-old Marine veteran who has been at war his entire life. The state must choose peace.

06/18/2026

On June 25, the State of Florida intends to execute the oldest man it ever has, Dusty Ray Spencer. At 74 years of age, what's the point?

06/17/2026

So what does it mean to kill the oldest man Florida has ever executed?
It means we have forgotten something our oldest ancestors knew in their bones. That old age should carry a person away from the table, not toward it. That the old are not ours to spend. That there is a mercy owed to a man at the end of his road simply because he has reached the end of his road.
I do not know if Florida will remember in time.
I know I will be there either way.
I will be holding the hand of an old man, in the last room of his life, asking the state the question that keeps rolling around in my head…
When did we become a people who slaughter the old?

Dusty Ray Spencer is 74 and dying. On June 25 Florida intends to execute him anyway. A priest asks when we became a people who kill the old.

06/10/2026

PRAY!

Please join me in prayer that the Supreme Court of the United States will end nitrogen ex*****ons.

06/09/2026

06/07/2026

"A Floating Feather" — Now Available from Complicit Press

Roderick "Seadog" Orme died on death row on April 23, 2026. He killed himself before the State of Florida could. Some time after that, my dear friend Samantha Wainwright sent Orme's final publication to me for publication. I found it fascinating.

from Seadog:

"I have been truly blessed in recent years to have encountered some special people in my life. As a result I found not only good relationships — in some cases I now have the very best friendships I've ever known in my life. I cannot ever fully express the level of gratitude I have in my heart for those who have befriended me, and I certainly cannot do justice to the amount of love and respect I hold for those people. Their true display of humanity towards me. For they are far better human beings than I have ever been in the past or may ever hope to be in the future."

"I am still sad to no longer be in the company and service of my master the eagle, but I no longer lament my condition, and nor do I fear my demise. I see now that the creator of all life loves me no less and no more than his other creations, because the love of family is not increased or subtracted from contingent on the different status or function of each family member — but because we are simply family. So cast me free to soar and land wherever you intend, because I know now that even you, the wind, are directed by the one who guides us all."

*in addition to this ebook version, a print version will be released on this same site in the coming days

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06/06/2026

Film : “The nitrogen ex*****on controversy is not only about death. It is about whether the state can rebrand suffocation as something else.”

-Suffocation By Design

Alabama calls it nitrogen hypoxia. State officials describe it as a...