{"id":1150,"date":"2020-12-05T20:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=133247"},"modified":"2020-12-05T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:12:44","slug":"trumps-plan-to-revive-the-gallows-electric-chair-gas-chamber-and-firing-squad-recalls-a-hideous-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/05\/trumps-plan-to-revive-the-gallows-electric-chair-gas-chamber-and-firing-squad-recalls-a-hideous-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Plan to Revive the Gallows, Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, and Firing Squad Recalls a Hideous History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Austin Sarat<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>The authorization of additional execution methods sends a&nbsp;message about the lengths the Trump administration will go to kill as many death row inmates as possible before Joe Biden takes office and, as expected, halts the federal death penalty.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/views-article\/thumbs\/electric_chair.jpg?itok=A8pQR1LU\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Jim Wilde (L) and his son Wilson view the electric chair nicknamed &quot;Old Sparky&quot; on display at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas on December 7, 2002. The chair, in service from 1924 through 1964, was used to execute 361 prisoners. (Photo: Paul Buck\/AFP via Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/05\/trumps-plan-to-revive-the-gallows-electric-chair-gas-chamber-and-firing-squad-recalls-a-hideous-history\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Sarat The authorization of additional execution methods sends a\u00a0message about the lengths the Trump administration will go to kill as many death row inmates as possible before\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}