{"article":{"id":7331,"heading":"Bird Lands on Execution Protester","author":"deedee","created":"2001-06-12 09:44:06","modified":"2001-06-12 10:00:01","last_modified":"Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:00:01","article":"<p>As I watched the national media frenzy about the execution, an extraordinary thing happened that even CNN couldn't ignore.  A group of protestors stood outside the prison in a silent vigil against the death penalty.  A tiny bird (looked like a young sparrow) landed on the folded arms of one of the protestors and stayed there for at least ten minutes.  CNN did a short close up of the bird, but then rapidly switched to the Oklahoma memorial and more calls for retribution. <br><br> STOP THE BARBARIC DEATH PENALTY!!<\/p>\n","contact":"dhalleck@weber.ucsd.edu","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"As Timothy McVeigh received the lethal injection, a small bird landed on the folded arms of one of the protesters gathered outside the Terra Haute prison.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/06\/7331.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}