{"id":26497,"date":"2012-01-03T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=26497"},"modified":"2012-01-03T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T20:52:00","slug":"time-why-the-death-penalty-is-slowly-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/01\/03\/time-why-the-death-penalty-is-slowly-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME: Why the Death Penalty Is Slowly Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California is having problems with its death penalty. It hasn\u2019t executed anyone since 2006, when a federal court ruled that its method of lethal injection was improper and could cause excessive pain. The state spent five years coming up with a better method \u2014 and last month, a judge threw that one out too. One indication of just how bogged down California\u2019s capital-punishment system is: the inmate who brought the latest lethal-injection challenge has been on death row for 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t just California. The Death Penalty Information Center reported last month that the number of new death sentences nationally was down sharply in 2011, dropping below 100 for the first time in decades. It also reported that executions were plummeting \u2014 down 56% since 1999.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2012\/01\/03\/why-the-death-penalty-is-slowly-dying\/?xid=gonewsedit&#038;google_editors_picks=true\">Read full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is having problems with its death penalty. It hasn\u2019t executed anyone since 2006, when a federal court ruled that its method of lethal injection was improper and could cause excessive pain. The state spent five years coming up with a better method \u2014 and last month, a judge threw that one out too. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26497","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=26497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}