{"id":632,"date":"2007-04-25T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-04-25T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T14:55:29","slug":"42507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"4\/25\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Filiaggi was executed by lethal injection in Ohio yesterday. \u00a0 He was the 25th man to be executed in Ohio since 1999. \u00a0 In our research on the death penalty, I interviewed Connecticut author Annette Boscoe. \u00a0 She wrote the book <em>Choosing Mercy<\/em>. \u00a0 Her son and his wife were violently killed in Montana. \u00a0 Ms. Boscoe forgave the killer and \u00a0lobbied for him in court. \u00a0Instead of the death penalty, he \u00a0received a life sentence. \u00a0 Some 12 years into that sentence, \u00a0the man \u00a0had a spiritual conversion and repented. \u00a0 Had he been killed prior, Ms. Boscoe said she wondered what would have happened to his soul. \u00a0 Good question, for all of us. <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 For more on our stance about the death penalty and &#8220;Life issues&#8221; in general, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_life.html\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Filiaggi was executed by lethal injection in Ohio yesterday. \u00a0 He was the 25th man to be executed in Ohio since 1999. \u00a0 In our research on the death penalty, I interviewed Connecticut author Annette Boscoe. \u00a0 She wrote <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=632\"><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-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}