{"id":66980,"date":"2018-05-31T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66980"},"modified":"2018-05-30T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T03:32:09","slug":"miscarriage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66980","title":{"rendered":"Miscarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s a subject on which I’ve taken more than my fair share of crap from fellow conservatives, it’s on the Death Penalty.<\/p>\n

I support it for every possible reason, with one exception – the inevitability\u00a0of executing the innocent.<\/p>\n

There is no rational doubt that Cameron Todd Willingham<\/a> was innocent of the arson murder for which he was executed in Texas in 2004; the “settled science” that convicted him of the murder of his sons turned out to be baked monkey doodle.<\/p>\n

And even though the evidence against him read like an episode of\u00a0Reno 911…<\/em><\/p>\n

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The sole survivor of an attack in which four people were murdered identified the perpetrators as three white men. The police ignored suspects who fit the description and arrested a young black man instead. He is now awaiting execution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…it appears likely to happen again.<\/p>\n

The whole piece is worth a listen- especially the part near 16:03 where the host and his guest (the\u00a0NYTimes’\u00a0<\/em>Nick Kristof) express amazement that this could happen in blue, liberal, Democrat California, on the watch of Jerry Brown and former state Attorney General Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there’s a subject on which I’ve taken more than my fair share of crap from fellow conservatives, it’s on the Death Penalty. I support it for every possible reason, with one exception – the inevitability\u00a0of executing the innocent. There is no rational doubt that Cameron Todd Willingham was innocent of the arson murder for […]<\/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-66980","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\/66980","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=66980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66981,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66980\/revisions\/66981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}