{"id":60,"date":"2025-04-05T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-05-24T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:49:48","slug":"the-calvin-thomas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"The Calvin Thomas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>with Kim Varner, Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine being across from the electric chair &#8211; in the death chamber, picking a grey suit to be buried in, your last meal that you will surely not be able to eat &#8211; knowing in 14-hours you will be executed in front a gallery of people. This is the Calvin Thomas story, one part of it at least. He didn\u2019t die that day, in fact, Calvin has survived!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calvin Thomas was 17 years old when he was sentenced to death row in Jacksonville, Florida. One of twelve children born to a single mother in 1942, Calvin had an eighth-grade education and a thriving moonshine business with two buddies when he was arrested in 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fourteen Hours to Execution - The Calvin Thomas Story\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/odYEMWs85Q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with Kim Varner, Sr Imagine being across from the electric chair &#8211; in the death chamber, picking a grey suit to be buried in, your last meal that you will surely not be able to eat &#8211; knowing in 14-hours you will be executed in front a gallery of people. This is the Calvin Thomas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/?p=60\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Calvin Thomas Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b-inpowerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}