{"id":11827,"date":"2023-02-04T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2023-02-04T04:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:21:36","slug":"kiir-pardons-71-inmates-36-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/kiir-pardons-71-inmates-36-on-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Kiir pardons 71 inmates, 36 on death row<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Bida Elly David<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has pardoned a total 71 inmates with 36 on death row while 35 were convicted of minor crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiir pardon was pronounced in a Presidential decree read over the State-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), Friday evening. This came as a gesture of peace in response to Pope Francis peace pilgrimage to Juba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president of the Republic of South Sudan do here by grant pardon to inmates in Juba Central prison as here under\u201d he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decree however did not point out the crimes and the offences committed by the inmates meant to face the death row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Kiir has directed all the state authorities to immediately execute the orders without delay to enable the decree work on its effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bida Elly David President Salva Kiir Mayardit has pardoned a total 71 inmates with 36 on death row while 35 were convicted of minor crimes. Kiir pardon was pronounced in a Presidential decree read over the State-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), Friday evening. This came as a gesture<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/kiir-pardons-71-inmates-36-on-death-row\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Salva-Kiir-Mayardit-President-of-South-Sudan-Courtesy-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11829,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/11829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}