{"id":915,"date":"2005-01-18T13:21:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T18:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/18\/juvenile_execut\/"},"modified":"2005-01-18T13:21:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T18:21:28","slug":"juvenile_execut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/18\/juvenile_execut\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What does Virginia have in common with Iran, Somalia and Sudan?<br \/>\nThey all allow executions for crimes committed by juveniles.<br \/>\nLegislation submitted this year by Del. Vincent Callahan, R-McLean, and Sen. Patricia Ticer, D-Alexandria, would remove Virginia from that list by saying that juveniles who murder someone cannot be sentenced to death for their crimes.<br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s something fundamentally wrong with a society that executes children,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2005\/012005\/01182005\/1640401\">Callahan said<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it seems Vince Callahan, who until he sided with the anti-taxers for most of last year was considered a more moderate GOPer, seems to have come home a bit.  Let\u2019s hope he can bring some of his Republican brethren along.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Jack Payden-Travers, director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty] said that Virginia has executed 21 juvenile offenders since 1787. Of those, 19 were black.<br \/>\nOnly six states, including Virginia, still allow people to be executed for crimes committed when they were juveniles, Payden-Travers said. Virginia is second only to Texas in the number of juveniles it has executed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does Virginia have in common with Iran, Somalia and Sudan? They all allow executions for crimes committed by juveniles. Legislation submitted this year by Del. Vincent Callahan, R-McLean, and Sen. Patricia Ticer, D-Alexandria, would remove Virginia from that list by saying that juveniles who murder someone cannot be sentenced to death for their crimes.&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/01\/18\/juvenile_execut\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}