{"id":2072,"date":"2011-01-08T07:13:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T15:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2011-01-08T07:13:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T15:13:05","slug":"shed-my-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/shed-my-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shed My Beliefs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I read this in a story about the trial of the <a href='http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/pacific-northwest-news\/index.ssf\/2011\/01\/jurors_in_woodburn_bombing_case_reveal_what_led_to_guilty_verdicts_death_penalty_decisions_for_turni.html#incart_mrt'>Woodburn bombers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When they entered deliberations for the death penalty, jurors knew they had to shed any personal or religious beliefs about possible redemption and follow the judge&#8217;s instructions and the legal process that requires answering four questions affirmatively to deliver the death penalty, including the future danger of a defendant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there is a secondary reason why I could not serve on a jury.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want &#8220;to shed any personal or religious beliefs&#8221; &#8212; not about possible redemption, not about right and wrong, not about justice, not about returning good for evil.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I read this in a story about the trial of the Woodburn bombers: When they entered deliberations for the death penalty, jurors knew they had to shed any personal or religious beliefs about possible redemption and follow the judge&#8217;s instructions and the legal process that requires answering four questions affirmatively to deliver the death &#8230; <a title=\"Shed My Beliefs?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/shed-my-beliefs\/\" aria-label=\"More on Shed My Beliefs?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[436,24],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","tag-courts","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-xq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}