{"id":9076,"date":"2026-01-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:00:02","slug":"capital-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/capital-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"CAPITAL PUNISHMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It surprises some people that I\u2019m not a fan of the death penalty, given my line of work. It was part of my line of work that showed me wrongful convictions do happen. In Patrick Radden Keefe\u2019s book on criminals, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49joxKv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rogues<\/a>,\u201d we find this quote on page 258: \u201cThe administration of capital punishment is notoriously prone to error. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 155 death-row inmates have been exonerated, and it stands to reason that innocent people still face execution.\u201d Share your thoughts. What is your opinion on the topic, and the reason for your opinion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It surprises some people that I\u2019m not a fan of the death penalty, given my line of work. It was part of my line of work that showed me wrongful convictions do happen. In Patrick Radden Keefe\u2019s book on criminals, \u201cRogues,\u201d we find this quote on page 258: \u201cThe administration of capital punishment is notoriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9079,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions\/9079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}