{"product_id":"the-lie-of-the-clean-jeff-hood-9798235478299","title":"The Lie of the Clean Kill: Idaho, the Firing Squad, and the Allure of the Bullet","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is no clean way to take a human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a century, we have pretended otherwise. The rope became the chair. The chair became the gas chamber. The gas chamber became the needle. Each method was sold as more humane than the last. Each one proved to be a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, Idaho has made the firing squad its primary method of execution. The first state in modern history to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere south of Boise sits a chair with straps for the ankles, the waist and the arms. Facing it is a wall with gun ports. A white cloth. A target pinned over where a human heart should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lie of the Clean Kill\u003c\/em\u003e looks directly at what Idaho has built...the protocols, the shooters and the second volley written into the rules for the moment the first one fails. States do not draft contingency procedures for outcomes they believe are impossible. The clean, foolproof argument collapses in the face of its own rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on public records, court filings, medical evidence and the testimony of those who have stood closest to the killing, this book confronts the oldest lie of the killing state: that killing can somehow be made clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe firing squad is not a return to honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a better disguise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Hood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235478299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Complicit Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Jeff Hood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546689769727,"sku":"9798235478299","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lie-of-the-clean-jeff-hood-9798235478299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}