{"id":21245,"date":"2024-11-15T04:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21245"},"modified":"2024-11-15T04:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:08:21","slug":"firing-line-friday-resolved-that-the-death-penalty-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/11\/15\/firing-line-friday-resolved-that-the-death-penalty-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That the Death Penalty Is a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The death penalty isn\u2019t at the top of voters concerns like it was thirty years ago, but the overarching question of whether we should have the death penalty or not today reveals a still standing stark division between the states. Let us look back when the question of whether <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/7210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the death penalty is a good thing<\/a> or not was debated by William F. Buckley, Jr., Leon Botstein, Ira Glasser, Bryan Stevenson, Ed Koch, Stephen B. Bright, Walter Berns, and Susan Boleyn, as moderated by Michael E. Kinsley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XBGb2Y8g3Ik?si=3UINtoHBEQWOzcLs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That the Death Penalty Is a Good Thing \"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The death penalty isn\u2019t at the top of voters concerns like it was thirty years ago, but the overarching question of whether we should have the death penalty or not today reveals a still standing stark division between the states.  Let us look back when the question of whether the death penalty is a good thing or not was debated by William F. Buckley, Jr., Leon Botstein, Ira Glasser, Bryan Stevenson, Ed Koch, Stephen B. Bright, Walter Berns, and Susan Boleyn, as moderated by Michael E. Kinsley.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The death penalty isn\u2019t at the top of voters concerns like it was thirty years ago, but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/11\/15\/firing-line-friday-resolved-that-the-death-penalty-is-a-good-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-21245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-firing-line-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21246,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions\/21246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}