{"id":1487,"date":"2015-06-03T08:12:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2015-06-03T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:12:18","slug":"victory-nebraska-becomes-the-19th-state-to-abolish-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/03\/victory-nebraska-becomes-the-19th-state-to-abolish-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"VICTORY: Nebraska Becomes the 19th State to Abolish the Death Penalty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/nebraskansforpeace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraskans for Peace<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow, who would have thought it possible? Red-state Nebraska (with a few purple splotches) actually has repealed the death penalty by voting to override the Governor\u2019s veto! And who were the people responsible for finally pushing this through? A strong coalition of abolitionists, plus some unlikely suspects, that\u2019s who.<\/p>\n<p>First, a little bit of history: Nebraska was the first state to legislatively abolish the death penalty in the modern era, in 1979, but the bill failed to survive the governor\u2019s veto. Subsequently, we saw three executions in the 1990\u2019s, the last one being in 1997.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nebraskansforpeace.org\/death_penalty_repealed\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nebraskans for Peace: Wow, who would have thought it possible? Red-state Nebraska (with a few purple splotches) actually has repealed the death penalty by voting to override the Governor\u2019s veto! And who were the people responsible for finally pushing this through? A strong coalition of abolitionists, plus some unlikely suspects, that\u2019s who. First, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/03\/victory-nebraska-becomes-the-19th-state-to-abolish-the-death-penalty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VICTORY: Nebraska Becomes the 19th State to Abolish the Death Penalty!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[8,11,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}