{"id":35010,"date":"2021-08-10T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/court-ruling-clears-way-for-first-executions-in-papua-new-guinea-in-nearly-70-years"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:17:22","slug":"court-ruling-clears-way-for-first-executions-in-papua-new-guinea-in-nearly-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35010","title":{"rendered":"Court ruling clears way for first executions in Papua New Guinea in nearly 70 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision quashes temporary orders that had stayed the executions of 14 men on death row<\/p>\n<p>A ruling by Papua New Guinea\u2019s national court has cleared the way for the country\u2019s first executions in almost 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 condemned prisoners have a chance to appeal to a government-appointed committee for clemency, but if that fails the executions will proceed pending a decision by a committee as to the most appropriate mode of execution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/court-ruling-clears-way-for-first-executions-in-papua-new-guinea-in-nearly-70-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision quashes temporary orders that had stayed the executions of 14 men on death rowA ruling by Papua New Guinea\u2019s national court has cleared the way for the country\u2019s first executions in almost 70 years.The 14 condemned prisoners have a chance to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35011,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35010\/revisions\/35011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}