{"id":54,"date":"2012-10-17T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=54"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:08:44","slug":"4-a-hell-of-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"4. A Hell of a Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Punishment04.png\" alt=\"At its most extreme, the State punishes by taking away your life.\" width=\"499\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Punishment04.png 499w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Punishment04-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69deb4d359e700028771868' value='69deb4d359e700028771868'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69deb4d359e700028771868' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69deb4d359e700028771868' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69deb4d359e700028771868' ><\/p>\n<p>The Criminal Lawyer&#8217;s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)<\/p>\n<p>Part 2: &#8220;Take That!&#8221; &#8212; Punishment<\/p>\n<p>Page 4: Extreme penalty<\/p>\n<p><em>Hanged body on a tree<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">At its most extreme, the State does all of the above by taking your LIFE.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lee van Cleef-looking sheriff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>SHERIFF<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s a hell of a thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8230;killing a man<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69deb4d359e700028771868' class='bg-showmore-plg-link bg-arrow '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4,6],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-punishment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}