{"id":51373,"date":"2015-06-05T15:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/the-anger-behind-the-death-penalty.html"},"modified":"2015-06-05T15:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:33:39","slug":"the-anger-behind-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/the-anger-behind-the-death-penalty.html","title":{"rendered":"The Anger Behind the Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Nebraska&#39;s governor insisting he&#39;ll execute 11 already-condemned inmates even if the state legislature just banned the death penalty there, to Supreme Court Justices Alito and Scalia hinting they&#39;re okay with painful lethal injections because they think it&#39;s the fault of death penalty abolitionists that pain-free chemicals can&#39;t be imported to the US, there&#39;s a distinct mean streak (to say the least) behind some death penalty supporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/06\/a-governor-threatens-to-execute-prisoners-out-of-spite\/394949\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-9zx4aaotmV_96hyHIFpoKb6Xm7cdqMW5I7s4AL7OxjEzDYEum0Pu4wBzilIVodQngLbJFe9lw31sA7r3NjZoVFGOgUrX3KlJOtoevMoogIIV02qi62QnUXBZz7sOxucCtLNHDfu0IOsOF7Y6bZOffJIFdcY17jbZ7bvTNfuQ000=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/06\/a-governor-threatens-to-execute-prisoners-out-of-spite\/394949\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'>Pete Ricketts and the Nebraska Death Penalty &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAfter his state abolishes the death penalty, Governor Pete Ricketts vows to apply it to the ten inmates still on death row.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/S4piwWk3t1x'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nebraska&#39;s governor insisting he&#39;ll execute 11 already-condemned inmates even if the state legislature just banned the death penalty there, to Supreme Court Justices Alito and Scalia hinting they&#39;re okay with painful lethal injections because they think it&#39;s the fault of death penalty abolitionists that pain-free chemicals can&#39;t be imported to the US, there&#39;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/the-anger-behind-the-death-penalty.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Anger Behind the Death Penalty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31974,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/colorado-looks-at-abolishing-the-death-penalty.html","url_meta":{"origin":51373,"position":0},"title":"Colorado looks at abolishing the death penalty","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Dec-12 4:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm fine with putting it before the voters, vs. the legeslature. 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