{"id":4472,"date":"2020-11-03T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2021-08-12T00:14:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T04:14:39","slug":"petition-re-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/petition-re-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition RE Parole Hearing for Man Who Killed Detective John Apanites, EOW April 7, 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4474\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/petition-re-parole\/wjtcurashrsecmy-800x450-nopad\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WjtcurAshRsEcmy-800x450-noPad.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"558,262\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WjtcurAshRsEcmy-800x450-noPad-300x141.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WjtcurAshRsEcmy-800x450-noPad.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4474 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WjtcurAshRsEcmy-800x450-noPad.jpg\" alt=\"Aponites\" width=\"558\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WjtcurAshRsEcmy-800x450-noPad.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WjtcurAshRsEcmy-800x450-noPad-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The family of Cleveland Police Detective John Apanites (EOW April 1969) is asking the public to sign and share a petition to present to the patrol hearing of Apanites&#8217; killer, Joseph McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s sentence was commuted to 15 years to life after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. This is his seventh attempt at seeking release.<\/p>\n<p>The family is requesting that he be denied parole and not allowed further consideration for another ten years.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to sign the petition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/c-o-p-s-concerns-of-police-survivors-block-parole-of-cop-killer-joseph-mcdonald-a-129651?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_25018327_en-US%3A0&amp;recruiter=419034550&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=copylink&amp;utm_campaign=share_petitionLetters&amp;fbclid=IwAR08-9YQJh7C__P7Iq6xJB32u5T_IRolKWfYUgx4olzXeDjSsFik6bEQ62o&amp;use_react=false\">please visit this page on Change.org<\/a>. Correspondence for this petition is being accepted through Friday, November 13, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Cleveland Police Detective John Apanites (EOW April 1969) is asking the public to sign and share a petition to present to the patrol hearing of Apanites&#8217; killer, Joseph McDonald.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Petition RE Parole Hearing for Man Who Killed Detective John Apanites, EOW April 7, 1969 - GCPOMS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.policememorialsociety.org\/petition-re-parole\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Petition RE Parole Hearing for Man Who Killed Detective John Apanites, EOW April 7, 1969 - 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