{"id":1036,"date":"2006-12-20T09:21:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2006-12-20T13:11:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:11:27","slug":"death-penalty-suspended-in-two-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/12\/20\/death-penalty-suspended-in-two-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Penalty Suspended in Two States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2006_12_20_lindsey.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2006_12_20_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathpenalty.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/rids\/20061214\/i\/r2454401479.jpg?x=279&#038;y=345&#038;sig=L.EvubIiMovpfcyyXtcy.A--\" alt=\"Angel Diaz\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathpenalty.org\">Death Penalty Focus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One week ago today, Florida death row inmate, Angel Diaz, was executed by lethal injection. It took him more than half an hour to die. The botched execution required a second dose of chemicals to be administered after the first injection punctured Diaz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s veins before entering soft tissue. Two days later, Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspended all executions in the state pending the returns and recommendations of a commission appointed to review the constitutionality of the lethal injection procedure. Since 2000, Florida has executed death row inmates by lethal injection after the use of the electric chair was suspended following an instance of flames shooting out of an inmate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head during his execution. Hours after Governor Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to suspend executions, a federal judge in California ruled that this state&#8217;s lethal injection system is unconstitutional as it violates the 8th amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. However, U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s verdict was decidedly mixed as he noted that California\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death penalty was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153broken, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6can be fixed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In response, California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has pledged to correct the problems in the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s execution procedures cited in Judge Fogel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruling. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathpenalty.org\">www.deathpenalty.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>ADDENDUM: The state of Maryland has also suspended executions. See &#8220;Highest Court in Maryland Suspends Executions&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/20\/us\/20death.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/20\/us\/20death.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus One week ago today, Florida death row inmate, Angel Diaz, was executed by lethal injection. It took him more than half an hour to die. The botched execution required a second dose of chemicals to be administered after the first injection punctured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}