{"id":2343,"date":"2004-11-15T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2004\/11\/15\/thwarting-the-hangman\/"},"modified":"2004-11-15T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T15:43:10","slug":"thwarting-the-hangman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"thwarting-the-hangman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has handed Texas another blow in death penalty cases.  It overturned the State&#8217;s case against a man who was prevented from introducing evidence about his <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/news.findlaw.com\/ap_stories\/a\/w\/1154\/11-15-2004\/20041115091501_06.html%22\">learning disability and low IQ<\/a>.  According to the State, one&#8217;s mental capacity has nothing to with murder, which is why they thought the defendant deserved the death penalty. And yes I do say <i>they<\/i> because the jurors did not have all the information.<br \/>\nIn capital murder cases you need either an intent to kill and\/or malice, if I remember correctly, in order to be convicted.  Malice is the key, and without it there&#8217;s no case. If Texas could it would put to death children I imagine.  This is no difference.  Have the mental capacity of a 4 year old and you&#8217;ll still get fried.  The question is, do you want that zesty or plain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has handed Texas another blow in death penalty cases. It overturned the State&#8217;s case against a man who was prevented from introducing evidence about his learning disability and low IQ. According to the State, one&#8217;s mental capacity has nothing to with murder, which is why they thought the defendant deserved the death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}