{"id":247641,"date":"2010-01-29T16:45:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2010-01-29T16:45:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:45:44","slug":"poll-the-right-verdict-in-slain-kansas-abortion-doctor-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247641","title":{"rendered":"POLL: the right verdict in slain Kansas abortion doctor case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11587\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11587\" title=\"roeder\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/01\/roeder1-300x264-custom.jpg\" alt=\"roeder\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Roeder in undated booking photograph released to Reuters on 12 June 2009\/Wichita Police<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"articleText\"><span>A man accused of gunning down one of America&#8217;s few late-term abortion providers was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday after he said he had to act to stop the doctor from performing more abortions. Give us your opinion in the online poll below.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The judge initially allowed Roeder&#8217;s defense team to argue for a <a title=\"Voluntary manslaughter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voluntary_manslaughter\">voluntary manslaughter<\/a> conviction by proving he had <em>&#8220;an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But after Roeder openly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/news\/22369145\/detail.html\">admitted on the stand to shooting<\/a> Dr. George Tiller to death with premeditation, the judge told the jury it could not consider that option.<\/p>\n<div class=\"TWIIGSPOLL\"><script src=\"http:\/\/www.twiigs.com\/poll.js?pid=48199&amp;color=reddark\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"TWIIGSPOLLpolllink\" style=\"border-style: none; margin: 10px 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; clear: none; display: block; float: none; position: static; visibility: visible; height: auto; line-height: normal; width: auto; outline-style: none; clip: rect(auto, auto, auto, auto); vertical-align: baseline; z-index: auto; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: normal;\"><a class=\"TWIIGSPOLLmorelink\" style=\"border-style: none; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; clear: none; display: inline; float: none; position: static; visibility: visible; height: auto; line-height: normal; width: auto; outline-style: none; clip: rect(auto, auto, auto, auto); vertical-align: baseline; z-index: auto; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: normal; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twiigs.com\/\">poll by twiigs.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"TWIIGSPOLLpolllink\" style=\"border-style: none; margin: 10px 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; clear: none; display: block; float: none; position: static; visibility: visible; height: auto; line-height: normal; width: auto; outline-style: none; clip: rect(auto, auto, auto, auto); vertical-align: baseline; z-index: auto; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0pt; text-shadow: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: normal;\"><strong><span id=\"apture_prvw5\"><span style=\"background-position: right -1148px;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Roeder in undated booking photograph released to Reuters on 12 June 2009\/Wichita Police A man accused of gunning down one of America&#8217;s few late-term abortion providers was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday after he said he had to act to stop the doctor from performing more abortions. Give us your opinion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}