{"id":1237,"date":"2009-03-31T01:11:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2009-03-31T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T07:11:26","slug":"mercy-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged <a href=\"http:\/\/right-thinking.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/when_psychopaths_get_sick\/\">before<\/a> about the idea of releasing the Manson killers, who are supposedly reformed model prisoners.  CNN has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/03\/30\/manson.family.aging\/index.html\">front-page article<\/a> on it.  My feelings remain unchanged &#8212; the murderers weren&#8217;t executed.  That&#8217;s about as merciful as I&#8217;m willing to get, considering what they did and why.<\/p>\n<p>I find their stories unmoving.  Personally, if I recovered from some delusion and discovered that I&#8217;d murdered six people, I wouldn&#8217;t think myself deserving of freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged before about the idea of releasing the Manson killers, who are supposedly reformed model prisoners. CNN has a front-page article on it. My feelings remain unchanged &#8212; the murderers weren&#8217;t executed. That&#8217;s about as merciful as I&#8217;m willing to get, considering what they did and why. I find their stories unmoving. Personally, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mercy Killers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-jX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}