These meditations are based on encounters that I had with the last words of 84 persons executed in Texas. The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is a Baptist pastor, theologian and activist presently living and working in North Texas. A consistent wrier, Dr. Hood is the author of multiple books, including The Queer: An interaction with the Gospel of John, The Queering of an American Evangelical, The Sociopathic Jesus, The Year of the Queer and Jesus on Death Row and Frances. Dr. Hood writes daily at revjeffhood.com.