{"id":277,"date":"2003-01-11T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2003-01-11T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=277"},"modified":"2003-01-11T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2003-01-11T21:37:16","slug":"governor-commutes-death-sentences-throws-tantrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Governor Commutes Death Sentences, Throws Tantrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a glorious day for Death Row inmates in Illinois, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/LAW\/01\/11\/illinois.death.row\/index.html\">Governor Ryan commuted every death sentence today<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The death penalty in Illinois is not imposed fairly or uniformly,&#8221; said Ryan, but is often based on geography, race, nationality or economic status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The legislature couldn&#8217;t reform it,&#8221; the 69-year-old governor said. &#8220;Lawmakers won&#8217;t repeal it. And I won&#8217;t stand for it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;So there,&#8221; continued the governor, adding, in reply to criticisms that he had arrogantly substituted his own judgment for those of juries and courts, &#8220;I&#8217;m rubber and you&#8217;re glue and everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.&#8221; Seriously, I oppose the death penalty, but everyone should object to this circumvention of the law regardless of his views on the matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a glorious day for Death Row inmates in Illinois, as Governor Ryan commuted every death sentence today. &#8220;The death penalty in Illinois is not imposed fairly or uniformly,&#8221; said Ryan, but is often based on geography, race, nationality or economic status. &#8220;The legislature couldn&#8217;t reform it,&#8221; the 69-year-old governor said. &#8220;Lawmakers won&#8217;t repeal it. <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=277' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}