{"id":10143,"date":"2011-09-26T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10143"},"modified":"2011-09-26T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:17:43","slug":"death-penalty-opponents-regroup-after-davis-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10143","title":{"rendered":"Death Penalty Opponents Regroup After Davis&#8217; Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATLANTA, Ga.<\/strong> &#8211; Capital punishment critics are regrouping after the execution of Georgia inmate <strong>Troy Davis<\/strong>, trying to figure out the best way to harness the anti-death penalty sentiment the case created. Among the goals: get new like-minded people registered to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell them to get engaged in the political process because that&#8217;s where change is going to come,&#8221; said <strong>Helen Butler<\/strong>, executive director of the Atlanta-based Coalition For The Peoples&#8217; Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Butler was among a group of about two dozen death penalty opponents who met Thursday night in Atlanta to discuss how they could abolish capital punishment in Georgia. They are a small piece of the hundreds of thousands of people the <strong>Davis<\/strong> case attracted, from well-known supporters like the pope and former president<strong> Jimmy Carter<\/strong> to those much-less politically active.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Moye<\/strong> of Amnesty International said she expects the <strong>Davis<\/strong> execution to be used to rally repeal movements across the country. She plans to meet with activists in Georgia over the next few days to plot out an attempt to banish capital punishment there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, Ga. &#8211; Capital punishment critics are regrouping after the execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis, trying to figure out the best way to harness the anti-death penalty sentiment the case created. Among the goals: get new like-minded people registered to vote. &#8220;Tell them to get engaged in the political process because that&#8217;s where change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}