{"id":14297,"date":"2017-02-19T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2019-06-01T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T13:07:02","slug":"ohio-bill-killing-first-responders-death-penalty-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/ohio-bill-killing-first-responders-death-penalty-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Bill Will Make Killing First Responders A Death Penalty Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The proposed legislation also includes killings of current or former military members.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 A bill in the Ohio state House Legislature would add killing a first responder or military member to the list of slayings eligible for the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Dave Greenspan, a Republican from Westlake (a suburb of Cleveland) is spearheading the proposal. The bill would address fatal attacks on firefighters and emergency medical service providers.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation in the House Criminal Justice Committee would also include killings of current and former military members including reservists and national guard members.<\/p>\n<p>Killing a police officer is already a crime eligible for the death penalty.\\<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Rep Greenspan\u00a0says &#8220;I was inspired to act by cases in recent years nationally and in Ohio of attacks on police, fire and military personnel.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Greenspan tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/index.ssf\/2017\/02\/lawmaker_proposes_death_penalt_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland.com<\/a>\u00a0the goal is providing a strong deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>[divider style=&#8221;4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Want EMS and air medical tips sent straight to your inbox? Get <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Net<\/strong><\/span> newsletter. Sign up here (it&#8217;s free):<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>[shortcode-variables slug=&#8221;optin-form&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill in the Ohio state House Legislature would add killing a first responder or military member to the list of slayings eligible for the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":14298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}