{"id":186876,"date":"2013-09-10T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/10\/its-not-like-it-was-important-its-just-an-execution\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T00:53:00","slug":"its-not-like-it-was-important-its-just-an-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/10\/its-not-like-it-was-important-its-just-an-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Like it Was Important, It&#8217;s Just an Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Florida Attorney General had a fundraising meeting, so she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/national\/execution-rescheduled-to-accommodate-pam-bondi-fundraiser\/2140891\">delayed an execution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">There is no graver responsibility and act of state government than an execution.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In Florida this week, a campaign fundraiser takes precedence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Attorney General Pam Bondi persuaded Gov. Rick Scott to postpone an execution scheduled for tonight because it conflicted with her re-election kick-off reception.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;What&#8217;s going on down there? It&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; said Phyllis Novick, the Ohio mother of one of Marshall Lee Gore&#8217;s victims, when told Monday about the reason for the delay.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gore, 50, raped, strangled and stabbed 30-year-old Robyn Novick in 1988 before dumping her body into a Miami-Dade County trash heap. Gore was also sentenced to die for the slaying of 19-year-old Susan Roark, whose body was found a few months later in Columbia County.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gore was initially scheduled for execution in June, but the date was twice delayed because of legal skirmishes over Gore&#8217;s sanity.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have mixed emotions.<\/p>\n<p>I oppose the death penalty, I see a delay to an execution as a good thing, but <b>postponing an execution so that you can raise money<\/b>?!?!<\/p>\n<p>Damn, that is cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Florida Attorney General had a fundraising meeting, so she delayed an execution: There is no graver responsibility and act of state government than an execution.In Florida this week, a campaign fundraiser takes precedence.Attorney General Pam Bondi persuaded Gov. Rick Scott to postpone an execution scheduled for tonight because it conflicted with her re-election kick-off &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1000,969,972,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-elections","category-evil","category-justice","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}