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Книга TOO OLD TO KILL Jeff Hood

TOO OLD TO KILL

Writings On the Execution of Dusty Ray Spencer

Автор: Jeff Hood
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: Complicit Press
Наличност: Очаква се зареждане
Издание 14. 07. 2026
11.53 € 22.56 лв
Dusty Ray Spencer was seventy-four years old. He was a Marine. He was a man Florida decided to kill....

Информация за книгата

Автор
Jeff Hood
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2026
страници
76
EAN
9798235649002
Enbook ID
53221175
Издател
Complicit Press
Теглоt
86
Размери
127 x 203 x 5

Пълно описание

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 sentence imposed without a jury...on mental illness the state's own experts could not dispute...on a man the courts remembered too late.

This is not a legal brief. It is a priest's account of walking beside a man in his final days...of dreams the night before...of the last conversation before a gurney...of what an execution does to the soul of the one who witnesses it. Hood does not ask readers to forget what Spencer did. He asks them to reckon with what killing an old man accomplishes.

Too Old to Kill stands as both indictment and elegy. It is a record of mercy denied and a call to remember that even the condemned grow old.