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Abolition Bill Clears New Mexico Committee

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"Death Peanlty Repeal Clears House Panel," is the AP report via the Albuquerque Journal.A murder victim's wife and the mother of an executed murderer urged lawmakers to abolish New Mexico's death penalty as a House committee endorsed the repeal. The approval Thursday on a 5-2 vote by the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee was the first step in what repeal supporters hope will be a successful effort after years of trying. The bill would replace the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Muina Arthur, the mother of Karl Chamberlain, who was executed in Texas in June, told the panel that her son ?did a horrific criminal thing.? He was convicted of raping and fatally shooting Felecia Prechtl, a 30-year-old single mother, at her Dallas apartment nearly 17 years earlier...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).