{"id":9916,"date":"2011-09-15T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9916"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:44:28","slug":"court-upholds-murder-conviction-in-babys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9916","title":{"rendered":"Court Upholds Murder Conviction In Baby&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATLANTA<\/strong> &#8212; The top court in the U.S. state of Georgia on Monday upheld the conviction and life sentence against a vegan couple over the death of their malnourished 6-week-old boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Supreme Court&#8217;s unanimous ruling rejected appeals by <strong>Jade Sanders<\/strong> and <strong>Lamont Thomas<\/strong>, who were convicted and sentenced after a jury found them guilty of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children for the April 2004 death of<strong> Crown Shakur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The two first-time parents rushed the infant to the hospital after he began to have trouble breathing and doctors declared him dead on arrival after failing to resuscitate him.<\/p>\n<p>They found his death was due to extreme malnourishment or starvation, and police then searched the couple&#8217;s apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; The top court in the U.S. state of Georgia on Monday upheld the conviction and life sentence against a vegan couple over the death of their malnourished 6-week-old boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice. The Georgia Supreme Court&#8217;s unanimous ruling rejected appeals by Jade Sanders [&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-9916","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\/9916","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=9916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}