{"id":249661,"date":"2026-07-22T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:14:12","slug":"69-news-berks-edition-at-530-deadline-looms-for-pa-lawmakers-to-act-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249661\/","title":{"rendered":"69 News Berks Edition at 5:30 &#8211; Deadline looms for Pa. lawmakers to act | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clock is ticking. State lawmakers have about 48 hours to find a fix after the state supreme court struck down mandatory life sentences for people convicted of second-degree murder. The ruling came in late March. The court said the sentence violates the state constitution&#8217;s prohibition on cruel punishment when it doesn&#8217;t look at a defendant&#8217;s specific role and culpability. the court gave state lawmakers until this Friday to come up with a solution. Tom Rader has reaction from the Berks County District Attorney at 5:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clock is ticking. State lawmakers have about 48 hours to find a fix after the state supreme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-249661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249661","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=249661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}