A Nonprofit Publishing Imprint
of Execution Intervention Project
Complicit Press publishes books that expose state violence, demand moral reckoning, and amplify silenced voices.
The Abolition Series
Using meticulous research and his own eyewitness accounts, Jeff Hood upends the State's narrative that nitrogen gas as an execution method is quick, painless, and humane. His central argument is damning: Nitrogen hypoxia delivers torture in a practice that is literally suffocation, by design.
"Once you know the truth, the only question is what you will do about it." – Abraham J. Bonowitz, Director/Cofounder of Death Penalty Action
The Intervention Series
Seven voted yes. Five voted no.
Five people looked at this man and said: not death.
This book is for those five.
This book is not a defense of everything Marbel Mendoza has done. He is not asking for that and neither is this argument. What follows is a narrower and more urgent proposition: that whatever Mendoza's culpability for the death of Conrado Calderon on March 17, 1992, that culpability does not meet the threshold required to take his life. The punishment Florida seeks to impose is disproportionate to the crime as the evidence actually establishes it. The evidence is far thinner and more contested than any death sentence can bear.
Submissions
We are looking for manuscripts and book proposals about death sentences, executions, and death penalty cases, including research and lived experience. Email info@executionintervention.org.