{"id":55040,"date":"2015-09-08T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55040"},"modified":"2015-09-08T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:41:14","slug":"55040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55040","title":{"rendered":"Marginal Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve noted for many years, I oppose the death penalty for one, and exactly one, reason:\u00a0The inevitability that an innocent person or people will be executed. It&#8217;s not academic \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=5&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDoQFjAEahUKEwiwz4j54ufHAhWDVJIKHWfPBVY&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fsf%2Fnational%2F2014%2F08%2F03%2Ffresh-doubts-over-a-texas-execution%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNHDEutoMGYD0WLfX5GRWpk8XoK88A&amp;sig2=Ug4mnWyoiLOPMAcCo2mDvw&amp;bvm=bv.102022582,d.aWw\">it&#8217;s happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I support the death penalty for every other reason you can imagine. \u00a0And it&#8217;s irrelevant &#8211; because the\u00a0inevitability of executing the innocent is more than enough to tilt the balance for me.<\/p>\n<p>With that out-of-the-way? I won&#8217;t\u00a0be protesting outside any South Carolina prisons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CB4QqQIwAGoVChMImKS1uOLnxwIVFhiSCh1ylQV4&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pressexaminer.com%2Fcharleston-church-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof-will-face-death-penalty%2F73147&amp;usg=AFQjCNHyNLWX5a-Pq1PMd4evbwo52WyEfg&amp;sig2=gJ_3gdc8ngpG4cd-UJt_cw&amp;bvm=bv.102022582,d.aWw\">if Dylann Roof gets the death penalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve noted for many years, I oppose the death penalty for one, and exactly one, reason:\u00a0The inevitability that an innocent person or people will be executed. It&#8217;s not academic \u2013 it&#8217;s happened. I support the death penalty for every other reason you can imagine. \u00a0And it&#8217;s irrelevant &#8211; because the\u00a0inevitability of executing the innocent [&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":[],"class_list":["post-55040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040","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=55040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55067,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040\/revisions\/55067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}