{"id":1242,"date":"2007-08-27T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2014-03-12T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:35:41","slug":"limits-of-dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Limits of Dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve been open about the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=239\">I support the death penalty for every reason <em>but <\/em>one<\/a>; the likelihood &#8211; indeed, the inevitability of eventually executing an innocent person.\u00a0 When there is any conceivable doubt &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=746\">and the fact that 200 people have been exonorated <em>from death row<\/em> in the past 31 years<\/a> means that doubt is <em>very <\/em>conceivable &#8211; the fact that life in a supermax is every bit as secure as death <em>and <\/em>is reversable makes it much more acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>But for all of that, I say this to you today; when they finally stomp John Evander Couey from the face of this earth for burying Jessica Lunsford alive, I will throw a party at my house.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying that I&#8217;ll put my quibbles about capital punishment aside, now that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/story?id=3520178&#038;page=1\">Couey&#8217;s been sentenced to death<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve been open about the fact that I support the death penalty for every reason but one; the likelihood &#8211; indeed, the inevitability of eventually executing an innocent person.\u00a0 When there is any conceivable doubt &#8211; and the fact that 200 people have been exonorated from death row in the past 31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-death-penalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42382,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/42382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}