{"id":19722,"date":"2010-05-13T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post-marylanders_continue_to_favor_death_penalty\/"},"modified":"2010-05-13T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:20:24","slug":"washington_post-marylanders_continue_to_favor_death_penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19722","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post&#8211;Marylanders continue to favor death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death penalty has sparked intense debate in Maryland in recent years &#8212; but attitudes among residents haven&#8217;t changed much.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty percent of Marylanders favor use of the death penalty for people convicted of murder, while 32 percent are opposed, according to a new Washington Post poll.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures don&#8217;t tell the entire story: Given a choice, more say they prefer the punishment of life in prison with no chance of parole than the death penalty &#8212; by 49 percent to 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Neither result has changed much since The Post asked the same questions three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/Marylanders-continue-to-favor-death-penalty.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death penalty has sparked intense debate in Maryland in recent years &#8212; but attitudes among residents haven&#8217;t changed much. Sixty percent of Marylanders favor use of the death penalty for people convicted of murder, while 32 percent are opposed,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19722\">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":[39,40,118,114,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-capital-punishment","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19722","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=19722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}