{"id":27700,"date":"2012-05-03T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27700"},"modified":"2014-03-12T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:34:24","slug":"ill-make-an-exception-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27700","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make An Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, I oppose the death penalty.  <\/p>\n<p>And even that&#8217;s not quite right &#8211; I favor it for every reason but one &#8211; the inevitability that an innocent person will, between human imperfection, the politics of the prosecution system, bad defense, the emotions of death-penalty cases and just plain bad luck, be executed.  <\/p>\n<p>(And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=todd%20cameron%20willingham%20new%20yorker&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;ved=0CC0QFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Freporting%2F2009%2F09%2F07%2F090907fa_fact_grann&#038;ei=R2yiT6DyIZSm8gSxxsTUCA&#038;usg=AFQjCNFxntjnAD287jgwIKxX3Aef7-mZQA&#038;sig2=n1asjryjLrGyY2d148yFmQ\">I was right about that<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m writing today to say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtwincities.com\/video?clipId=7139180&amp;autostart=true\">I&#8217;m willing to make an exception<\/a>.  Someone busted out Willy&#8217;s American Guitars in Saint Paul.  <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s like plundering the Vatican; like jacking up Graceland.  <\/p>\n<p>There is no punishment cruel or unusual enough for these people, when they&#8217;re caught.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, I oppose the death penalty. And even that&#8217;s not quite right &#8211; I favor it for every reason but one &#8211; the inevitability that an innocent person will, between human imperfection, the politics of the prosecution system, bad defense, the emotions of death-penalty cases and just plain bad luck, be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-27700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-music","tag-death-penalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700","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=27700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42374,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700\/revisions\/42374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}