{"id":1772,"date":"2016-10-20T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2016-10-20T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:51:12","slug":"meet-the-first-u-s-death-row-exoneree-and-support-the-retain-campaign-nov-1-in-omaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/20\/meet-the-first-u-s-death-row-exoneree-and-support-the-retain-campaign-nov-1-in-omaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the first U.S. death-row exoneree and support the Retain campaign Nov. 1 in Omaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/retainajustnebraska.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retain A Just Nebraska<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please join us on Tuesday, November 1, from 5 to 6:45 p.m. for a reception with death row exoneree, Kirk Bloodsworth. A screening of the documentary\u00a0<em>Bloodsworth: An Innocent Man<\/em>\u00a0about his life will follow the reception.<\/p>\n<p>An honorably discharged former Marine, Mr. Bloodsworth is the first person in the United States exonerated from death row by DNA testing. In 1984, he was arrested for the rape and murder of nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton. He was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1985. Kirk was released from death row in 1993 after DNA tests incontrovertibly established his innocence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WHEN<\/strong>: 5:00 pm &#8211; 6:45 pm on Tuesday, November 1, 2016<\/li>\n<li><strong>WHERE<\/strong>: The Session Room,\u00a01506 Mike Fahey Street, Omaha<\/li>\n<li><strong>COST<\/strong>: $50 suggested donation, $35 for young professionals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr. Bloodsworth will join us at the reception. Following that, there will be a screening of the film about his experience on death row at Film Streams, which is just around the corner from The Session Room, followed by a Q &amp;A with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/contribute\/page\/join-nov-1\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more and RSVP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Retain A Just Nebraska: Please join us on Tuesday, November 1, from 5 to 6:45 p.m. for a reception with death row exoneree, Kirk Bloodsworth. A screening of the documentary\u00a0Bloodsworth: An Innocent Man\u00a0about his life will follow the reception. An honorably discharged former Marine, Mr. Bloodsworth is the first person in the United States &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/20\/meet-the-first-u-s-death-row-exoneree-and-support-the-retain-campaign-nov-1-in-omaha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet the first U.S. death-row exoneree and support the Retain campaign Nov. 1 in Omaha<\/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":[19],"tags":[8,11,15,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772"}],"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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}