{"id":178285,"date":"2026-04-28T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:47:12","slug":"pennsylvania-bills-to-get-rid-of-the-state-death-penalty-advance-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178285\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania bills to get rid of the state death penalty advance in House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania House Bill 99 and House Bill 888 supporters argue that capital punishment is costly, inconsistently applied and has resulted in innocent people being executed in the past. In an HB 888 legal memo, Rep. Russ Diamond, R-102nd District, said the death penalty fails to uphold the sanctity of human life and is inconsistent with pro-life values. He was joined by prime HB 99 sponsor Rep. Christoper Rabb, D-200th District, in critiquing the government&#8217;s role in deciding which criminals live and die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House Bill 99 and House Bill 888 supporters argue that capital punishment is costly, inconsistently applied and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12101,6744,139,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-178285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fox45-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}