{"id":11327,"date":"2009-02-18T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/maryland_governor_asks_faith_leaders_to_help_end_death_penalty\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T18:17:50","slug":"maryland_governor_asks_faith_leaders_to_help_end_death_penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11327","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Governor asks faith leaders to help end death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley said Monday his effort to get the votes to repeal capital punishment in Maryland &#8220;is not done,&#8221; and he asked the religious community to help by petitioning lawmakers facing a difficult decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need your help, I really and truly do on this death penalty legislation,&#8221; O&#8217;Malley told about 300 people attending the African Methodist Episcopal Church Legislative Day. &#8220;It is not done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The governor also urged repeal supporters not to take any votes for granted on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need your help writing letters. I need your help persuading. I need your help even talking to delegates and senators that you may think are probably already with us,&#8221; O&#8217;Malley said. &#8220;You never really know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/?nid=25&#038;sid=1602906\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley said Monday his effort to get the votes to repeal capital punishment in Maryland &#8220;is not done,&#8221; and he asked the religious community to help by petitioning lawmakers facing a difficult decision. &#8220;I need your help, I<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11327\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,118,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-capital-punishment","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}