{"id":1498,"date":"2011-09-16T20:17:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/walb-on-protesters-and-gov-deal-at-vsu.html"},"modified":"2011-09-16T20:17:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:17:30","slug":"walb-on-protesters-and-gov-deal-at-vsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/walb-on-protesters-and-gov-deal-at-vsu.html","title":{"rendered":"WALB on protesters and Gov. Deal at VSU"},"content":{"rendered":"Jade Bulecza wrote for WALB today,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walb.com\/story\/15482973\/dealth-penalty-opp\">\nProtesters approach governor on Troy Davis<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nSouth Georgia death penalty opponents took their protest to the governor\nwhile he was in Valdosta.\n<p>\nGovernor Deal was in Valdosta to tour VSU&#8217;s nursing college but death\npenalty opponents confronted him about the upcoming execution of cop\nkiller Troy Davis.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6154211946\/in\/set-72157627686021808\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6182\/6154211946_ca4206c3d5_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nA small group of demonstrators gathered a VSU to plead for clemency for\nTroy Davis.\n<p>\n&#8220;We hope he uses his influence to the pardons and parole board to get\nout get rid of this execution,&#8221; said Deandre Jones, the president of\nthe VSU&#8217;s NAACP college chapter.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6154331278\/in\/set-72157627686021808\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6183\/6154331278_d4862416f1_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nProtesters approached the governor as he left the university center.\n<p>\n&#8220;The committee has followed the legal process and has gone through the\nappellate court,&#8221; said Deal.\n<p>\nDavis&#8217; execution is set for Wednesday for killing an off duty Savannah\npolice officer in 1989.\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jade Bulecza wrote for WALB today, Protesters approach governor on Troy Davis South Georgia death penalty opponents took their protest to the governor while he was in Valdosta. Governor Deal was in Valdosta to tour VSU&#8217;s nursing college but death penalty opponents confronted him about the upcoming execution of cop killer Troy Davis. A small [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,15,70,8,2,72,134,3659,204],"tags":[3798,3758,2129,46,2952,1915,8743,8752],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-education","category-ethics","category-georgia","category-government","category-incarceration","category-vsu","category-vsu-16-september-2011","category-walb","tag-16-september-2011","tag-execution","tag-governor","tag-nathan-deal","tag-protest","tag-troy-davis","tag-vsu","tag-walb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}