{"id":7629,"date":"2010-01-06T14:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2010-01-07T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T15:26:41","slug":"death-penalty-dead-law-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7629","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Death Penalty&#8217; Dead Law Walking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of good-ish, encouraging news from out of an otherwise horrible year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/05\/us\/05bar.html\">from this week&#8217;s <i>New York Times<\/i>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.<\/p>\n<p>There were other important death penalty developments last year: the number of death sentences continued to fall, Ohio switched to a single chemical for lethal injections and New Mexico repealed its death penalty entirely. But not one of them was as significant as the institute&#8217;s move, which represents a tectonic shift in legal theory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The A.L.I. is important on a lot of topics,&#8221;\u009d said Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. &#8220;They were absolutely singular on this topic&#8221;\u009d &#8220;\u201d capital punishment &#8220;\u201d &#8220;because they were the only intellectually respectable support for the death penalty system in the United States.&#8221;\u009d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s very bad news for the continued legitimacy of the death penalty,&#8221;\u009d Professor Zimring said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of good-ish, encouraging news from out of an otherwise horrible year, from this week&#8217;s New York Times&#8230; Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it. There were other important death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty","category-rights-and-freedoms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}