{"id":1095,"date":"2012-02-17T21:53:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/17\/amnesty-international-urges-stricter-limits-on\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:47","slug":"amnesty-international-urges-stricter-limits-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/17\/amnesty-international-urges-stricter-limits-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International Urges Stricter Limits on Police Taser Use as U.S. Death Toll Reaches 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1229118803\/amnesty-international-urges-stricter-limits-on-police-taser-use-as-u-s-death-toll-reaches-500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1229118803\/amnesty-international-urges-stricter-limits-on-police-taser-use-as-u-s-death-toll-reaches-500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/xfkd7bAlcJfxfLEfWtHaEzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Two days after the death of a Georgia man who was shocked with a police Taser &ndash; raising the known death toll from tasers to 500 in the United States &ndash; Amnesty International today repeated its call for tighter limits on police use of the weapons.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/news\/press-releases\/amnesty-international-urges-stricter-limits-on-police-taser-use-as-us-death-toll-reaches-500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via amnestyusa.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesTwo days after the death of a Georgia man who was shocked with a police Taser &ndash; raising the known death toll from tasers to 500 in the United States &ndash; Amnesty International today repeated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/17\/amnesty-international-urges-stricter-limits-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1538,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/26\/amnesty-international-website-blocked-in-saudi\/","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":0},"title":"Amnesty International website \u2018blocked in Saudi Arabia\u2019 | Amnesty International","author":"aslam","date":"July 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesAmnesty International\u2019s website has been blocked inside Saudi Arabia after the organization published criticism of a draft \u201canti-terror\u201d law.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1060,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/03\/30\/report-executions-increased-in-2011-due-to-arab\/","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":1},"title":"Report: Executions Increased in 2011 due to Arab Spring","author":"aslam","date":"March 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesAmnesty International has released its annual report on executions and the death penalty and found that executions were up in 2011. 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