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New Mexico House Approves Abolition Bill

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"NM House votes to abolish the death penalty," is the AP report via the Santa Fe New Mexican.  It's written by Deborah Baker.The New Mexico House of Representatives votes to abolish the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The legislation now heads to the state Senate. The House passed the repeal on a vote of 40-28. Twice in recent years, in 2005 and 2007, the House voted to do away with capital punishment. But each time the bills failed to win approval in the state Senate. New Mexico has executed one person in the past 49 years. There are two men on death row, whose executions would not be affected if the repeal were passed by the full Legislature this year."Death penalty opponents seize on economic costs," is a second AP report, also by Baker...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).