{"id":1797,"date":"2005-12-25T20:35:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T04:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2005-12-29T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T19:30:55","slug":"do-they-didnt-done-it-or-dont-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"do they didn&#8217;t done it or don&#8217;t they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke that &#8220;there are no guilty men in prison,&#8221; i.e. that practically all inmates claim to have been unjustly accused.  I&#8217;ve also heard that in fact most convicts cheerfully admit to the charges.  The latter seems more likely given that reporters find it <em>worth mentioning<\/em> that so-and-so (e.g. the late Tookie) &#8220;has always maintained his innocence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I recently found (but did not save the address of) a website listing the last words of convicts put to death in Texas.  I read the most recent dozen or so.  Almost half expressed remorse, and just one expressed a hope that the real criminal would someday be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old joke that &#8220;there are no guilty men in prison,&#8221; i.e. that practically all inmates claim to have been unjustly accused. I&#8217;ve also heard that in fact most convicts cheerfully admit to the charges. The latter seems more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}