{"id":2624,"date":"2005-08-25T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2018-02-11T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:08:27","slug":"four-drug-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/25\/four-drug-minimum\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Drug Minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belleville.com\/mld\/belleville\/news\/local\/12464734.htm\" target=\"_new\">Lawsuit calls execution method cruel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even as the state prepares to execute Timothy Johnston next week for killing his wife, a lawsuit questioning the method of execution remains unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>The suit on behalf of Johnston, 44, claims Missouri&#8217;s three-drug method of lethal injection violates his constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment. It was filed more than a year ago in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, and the court denied the state&#8217;s motion to dismiss it as frivolous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a logician who understands Boolean logic, if everyone gets the three-drug execution, it&#8217;s not cruel <i>and<\/i> unusual.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders what number of injections it takes to be humane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit calls execution method cruel: Even as the state prepares to execute Timothy Johnston next week for killing his wife, a lawsuit questioning the method of execution remains unresolved. The suit on behalf of Johnston, 44, claims Missouri&#8217;s three-drug method of lethal injection violates his constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment. It was filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19402,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/19402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}