{"id":2204,"date":"2007-12-17T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2007-12-17T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T17:52:42","slug":"new-jersey-moves-to-ban-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/12\/17\/new-jersey-moves-to-ban-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Moves to Ban Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-121707\/2007_12_17_lindsey.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-121707\/2007_12_17_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/lvillage.education.vic.gov.au\/lv\/tsc\/hp.nsf\/Files\/jmissen\/$File\/electricchair%5B1%5D.jpg\" alt=\"death penalty\" \/><em>GUEST: Lance Lindsey,  Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the New Jersey State legislature voted to pave the way for the state to become the first in four decades to repeal the death penalty. Governor John Corzine, long in favor of abolishing capital punishment, is expected in to sign into law the replacement of the death sentence with life without parole next month. Opponents of capital punishment view the recent vote as just the latest indicator that the US public is beginning to turn away from death penalty. As the number of death sentences and executions continue to reduce nationwide, anti-death penalty activists hope that other states follow New Jersey\u2019s suit. Currently, thirty-six states make use of the death penalty as a form of punishment. Activists are quick to caution that a nationwide ban is not foreseeable in the immediate future. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathpenalty.org\">www.deathpenalty.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus Last week, the New Jersey State legislature voted to pave the way for the state to become the first in four decades to repeal the death penalty. Governor John Corzine, long in favor of abolishing capital punishment, is expected in to sign [&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-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}