{"id":1364,"date":"2009-02-28T17:41:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T22:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2009-02-28T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T22:41:46","slug":"an-eye-for-an-eye-leaves-us-both-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/28\/an-eye-for-an-eye-leaves-us-both-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"An eye for an eye leaves us both blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 1 is International Death Penalty Abolition Day, which marks the anniversary of the date in 1847 in which Michigan officially became the first English-speaking territory in the world to abolish capital punishment. It is a day to remember the victims of violent crime and their survivors; it is a day to remember those killed by state-sanctioned violence &#8211; guilty or not- and their survivors; and it is a day for intensified education and action for alternatives to the death penalty.\u00a0See more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncadp.org\/blog.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To view photos from a recent SC vigil as the state executed Luke Williams III, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/photo-gallery\/?album=34\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to connect with South Carolina activists working to abolish the death penalty, email becci@scpronet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 1 is International Death Penalty Abolition Day, which marks the anniversary of the date in 1847 in which Michigan officially became the first English-speaking territory in the world to abolish capital punishment. It is a day to remember the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/28\/an-eye-for-an-eye-leaves-us-both-blind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}