{"id":268,"date":"2005-05-21T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T10:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=262"},"modified":"2005-05-21T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T10:59:53","slug":"52105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"5\/21\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Antonoitte Bosco this week.  She has authored 14 books, including <em>Choosing Mercy<\/em>.  The latter won a Pax Christi Award and is about her advocacy against the death penalty &#8212; even though her son and daughter-in-law were shot to death.  Some 12 years after the killings, the convicted murderer wrote Ms. Bosco a letter asking for forgiveness.  If he had been executed prior to this, Ms. Bosco told me whe wondered what his eternal, spiritual consequence would have been.  Only God has a &#8220;right to take a life,&#8221; she said.  And she added:  &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe we should rob thieves, rape rapists, burn an arsonist, or kill a killer&#8230;&#8221;  Our platform is in line with this as well.  And we believe, strongly, in the concept of &#8220;Restorative Justice.&#8221;  That is, there should be much more rehabilitative help for all those who are incarcerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Antonoitte Bosco this week. She has authored 14 books, including Choosing Mercy. The latter won a Pax Christi Award and is about her advocacy against the death penalty &#8212; even though her son and daughter-in-law were shot to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=268\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}