{"id":1233,"date":"2005-09-14T18:28:01","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T01:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/09\/rip\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T01:28:01","slug":"rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/09\/rip.html","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/09\/if_frances_newt.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Frances Newton<\/strong><\/font><\/a> was to be executed 28 minutes ago by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas.  Her 11th-hour appeal for a stay of her unjust death sentence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/metropolitan\/3354357\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>fell on deaf ears in the U.S. Supreme Court<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. And we have seen no news that Texas Gov. Rick Perry lifted a finger to prevent her from being executed either.<br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2005\/09\/14\/national\/a164733D81.DTL\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Frances Newton was executed<\/strong><\/font><\/a>: &#8220;Strapped to the death chamber gurney and with her parents among the people watching, she declined to make a final statement, quietly saying &#8216;no&#8217; and shaking her head when the warden asked if she would like to speak.&#8221;  The Texas governor rejected a delay in the execution Wednesday afternoon, the AP reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fell on deaf ears in the U.S. Supreme Court. And we have seen no news that Texas Gov. Rick Perry lifted a finger to prevent her from being executed either. Postscript:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbvgEs-rip","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}