{"id":1174,"date":"2020-12-06T00:42:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/06\/firing-squads-poison-gas-electric-chair-trump-moves-to-expand-ways-to-kill-prisoners-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T00:42:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T00:42:47","slug":"firing-squads-poison-gas-electric-chair-trump-moves-to-expand-ways-to-kill-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/06\/firing-squads-poison-gas-electric-chair-trump-moves-to-expand-ways-to-kill-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Squads, Poison Gas, Electric Chair: Trump Moves to Expand Ways to Kill Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"0WmbW9g8KlE\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>Sister Helen Prejean, one of the world\u2019s best known anti-death-penalty activists, says the spate of federal executions carried out by the Trump administration reflect a \u201cfundamental flaw\u201d in the law, which does not set limits on use of the death penalty. \u201cWhen you give absolute power over life and death to government officials, they can really do what they want,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p>#DemocracyNow<\/p>\n<p>Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracynow.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/democracynow.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracynow.org\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/democracynow.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE:<br \/>\nYouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/youtube.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nSoundCloud: <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\niTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/democracy-now!-audio\/id73802554\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/democracy-now!-audio\/id73802554<\/a><br \/>\nDaily Email Digest: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracynow.org\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/democracynow.org\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/06\/firing-squads-poison-gas-electric-chair-trump-moves-to-expand-ways-to-kill-prisoners-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Helen Prejean, one of the world\u2019s best known anti-death-penalty activists, says the spate of federal executions carried out by the Trump administration reflect a \u201cfundamental flaw\u201d in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}