{"id":176,"date":"2005-12-02T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-08-23T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T12:12:14","slug":"i-oppose-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/12\/02\/i-oppose-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"I oppose the death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/engcandle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/12\/02\/i-oppose-the-death-penalty\/engcandle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/engcandle.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,524\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"engcandle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/engcandle.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3571\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/engcandle.jpg\" alt=\"engcandle\" width=\"400\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/engcandle.jpg 400w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/engcandle-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today Singapore executed Nguyen Tuong Van, a young Australian man. I oppose the death penalty. I always have: my abhorrence to the hanging of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia in 1967, when I was 13, is a very distinct and early political memory. In thinking about \u00a0of Van Nguyen, it&#8217;s all too painful to remind oneself that the death penalty is considered acceptable and necessary in many countries, including the US, which is just coming up to <del>the milestone of 1000 people executed<\/del> since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.<\/p>\n<p><del>Wear a yellow ribbon<\/del> over the next few days to show your support for Van Nguyen and opposition to the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>(image: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120505131857\/http:\/\/www.cuadp.org:80\/abolitionwear.html\">CUADP<\/a>, and Amnesty International)<\/p>\n<p>Updated links 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today Singapore executed Nguyen Tuong Van, a young Australian man. I oppose the death penalty. I always have: my abhorrence to the hanging of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia in 1967, when I was 13, is a very distinct and early political memory. In thinking about \u00a0of Van Nguyen, it&#8217;s all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[7],"tags":[410,409,1358],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-amnesty-international","tag-capitl-punishment","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-2Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}