{"id":429379,"date":"2010-03-15T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"373 at http:\/\/eji.org\/eji"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:48:49","slug":"eji-challenges-13-year-old-mississippi-childs-conviction-and-sentence-to-die-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429379","title":{"rendered":"EJI Challenges 13-Year-Old Mississippi Child&#8217;s Conviction and Sentence to Die in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EJI is seeking to overturn the conviction and sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed on 13-year-old Demarious Banyard through an appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court.  EJI argues that Demarious&#8217;s trial was infected by racial bias and illegal jury instructions that required him to prove his innocence, and that his mandatory sentence to die in prison is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eji.org\/eji\/node\/373\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EJI is seeking to overturn the conviction and sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed on 13-year-old Demarious Banyard through an appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court. EJI argues that Demarious&#8217;s trial was infected by racial bias and illegal jury instructions that required him to prove his innocence, and that his mandatory sentence to die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429379","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}