{"id":188,"date":"2003-02-11T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2003-02-11T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/11\/psycho-killers\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T01:43:32","slug":"psycho-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/11\/psycho-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"PSYCHO KILLERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an almost unbelievable story from the <em>New York Times<\/em> (note: site requires registration if you do not already have an NYT account):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/02\/11\/national\/11DEAT.html\" target=\"blank\"><strong>State Can Make Inmate Sane Enough to Execute<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled yesterday that officials in Arkansas can force a prisoner on death row to take antipsychotic medication to make him sane enough to execute. Without the drugs, the prisoner, Charles Laverne Singleton, could not be put to death under a United States Supreme Court decision that prohibits the execution of the insane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;We have to gave him antipsychotic drugs so he&#8217;s not crazy when we kill him&#8230;! Anything less would be cruel and unusual.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone still argue that capital punishment is sane? What are we trying to deter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an almost unbelievable story from the New York Times (note: site requires registration if you do not already have an NYT account): State Can Make Inmate Sane Enough to Execute The federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled yesterday that officials in Arkansas can force a prisoner on death row to take antipsychotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}