Christian minister says nitrogen execution he witnessed is slow, ‘spiritually violent’ torture

As the Rev. Jeff Hood was leaving for work one day back in January, his children begged him for one thing: to come back alive.“The kids would cry and say they didn’t want me to die,” Rev. Hood told OSV News.The plea was well-founded: Rev. Hood, ordained in the Old Catholic Church (which separated from Rome after the First Vatican Council), was heading to the Jan. 25 execution of Alabama inmate