Reverend Jeff Hood says he feels 'haunted' after witnessing executions up close while offering comfort to condemned inmates in their final moments.
Hood in March sued the DOC for $10 million, alleging the agency and its spokesman defamed him in a statement released to the media after deciding to bar him from the execution chamber. The department has been contacted for comment via email.
He added:"It seemed like for a brief second, the clouds of heaven opened up, and we were able to just simply sit there, and I was able to tell him, you know, 'Scott, I love you too.' It was an incredibly powerful, kind of brief interruption in a place of such darkness and hate and evil." There was a man who was speaking through a microphone as the execution got underway like"a carnival barker," he added."So it's an incredibly dehumanizing atmosphere.""One of the executioners looked at me and he said, 'Are you gonna make it? Are you okay?' Because I think they thought that I was gonna pass out or something," he said."But really what it felt like was, it felt like Scott's spirit and my spirit were connected in that moment.
He added:"People say, 'well, how do you deal with that? Or how do you get over it?' And you don't. I mean, Scott will be with me forever... there's no getting around it. Scott, every one of these guys, resides in me."Brown used his final words"In those final moments where I engaged with him, I was like, you go and tell your truth," Hood said."I think a lot of people got frustrated with me because I encouraged him on a gurney to speak his truth.
"There's this big buffet of food[...] sandwiches and meats and fruits and vegetables and all these dips and all this kind of stuff. That spread of food is there for the guards because they have to stay there for the execution," he said. "I want everybody I work with to feel loved," he added."I kind of see my job as not just to love them, but also to humanize them to the world."
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