{"id":46775,"date":"2022-07-27T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jul\/26\/the-guardian-view-on-the-death-penalty-a-long-way-to-go"},"modified":"2022-07-27T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:00:31","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-the-death-penalty-a-long-way-to-go-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46775","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on the death penalty: a long way to go | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trend<\/p>\n<p>Next month, Oklahoma will embark on a grim schedule: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jul\/04\/oklahoma-death-row-prisoners-executions-plans\" title=\"\">an execution nearly every month<\/a> until the end of 2024. In September, it is due to execute Richard Glossip, whom many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/richard-glossip-investigation-1368672\/\" title=\"\">believe to be the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice<\/a>. A five-year moratorium has come to an end with the failure of a lawsuit arguing that the use of lethal injections was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma is not the only place that is enthusiastically resuming state-sanctioned killing after a pause. Myanmar\u2019s rulers announced on Monday that they had executed four prisoners, including Phyo Zeya Thaw, a rapper and former MP, drawing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/myanmar-executions-us-presses-china-to-rein-in-junta-saying-it-cannot-be-business-as-usual\" title=\"\">international condemnation<\/a>. This was the first time the death penalty had been used there for more than 30 years, said the UN. And on Tuesday it emerged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/japan-executes-man-over-tokyo-stabbing-rampage-reports\" title=\"\">Tomohiro Kato has been executed<\/a> in Japan for stabbing seven people to death in 2008.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jul\/26\/the-guardian-view-on-the-death-penalty-a-long-way-to-go\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trendNext month, Oklahoma will embark on a grim schedule: an execution nearly every month until the end of 2024. In September, it is due to execute Richard G&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"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":[41,1038,86,82,783,61,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-law","category-myanmar","category-singapore","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/46775","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46776,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46775\/revisions\/46776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}