{"id":4320,"date":"2003-09-25T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:49:15","slug":"arf_wi_is_ead_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/25\/arf_wi_is_ead_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Arf wi’ ‘is ‘ead!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good essay here on the death penalty<\/a>, with links to other material, and one that hits the nail on the head as to why I’ve concluded that, while it’s not per se <\/i>wrong, our justice system is not up to administering capital punishment effectively and justly. Which is a shame, because there are <\/i>those who deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good essay here on the death penalty, with links to other material, and one that hits the nail on the head as to why I’ve concluded that, while it’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[715,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3496,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/07\/justice_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":4320,"position":0},"title":"Justice","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Nov-02 6:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I want to see the DC Sniper(s) brought to justice. 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