{"id":206,"date":"2009-08-30T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T22:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2009-09-02T02:06:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T06:06:45","slug":"it-has-been-open-season-on-unborn-children-for-over-30-years-i-think-on-abortionists-there-will-be-a-bag-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"“It has been open season on unborn children for over 30 years. I think on abortionists there will be a bag limit.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the sound-bite from attorney Michael Hirsh, who represented Paul Hill (since executed) on appeal for killing a Florida abortion doctor and who may defend Scott Roeder against charges for killing Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, responding<\/a> to the Florida Supreme Court’s suggestion that allowing a defendant in such cases to argue a justifiable homicide defense to the jury would be an “invitation for lawlessness.”<\/p>\n

Much more on the prospects for such a defense from different perspectives in the AP story at the link.<\/p>\n

My earlier thoughts on whether Roeder deserves the death penalty are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s the sound-bite from attorney Michael Hirsh, who represented Paul Hill (since executed) on appeal for killing a Florida abortion doctor and who may defend Scott Roeder against charges for killing Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, responding to the Florida Supreme Court’s suggestion that allowing a defendant in such cases to argue a justifiable homicide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}