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New Mexico Senate Approves HB 285

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The Senate approved the measure on a vote of 24 yes, 18 no.  HB 285 would replace the state's death penalty with a sentence of life in prison.More legislative information on the bill is here.  StandDown's earlier coverage of the New Mexico legislation begins with this post.Governor Bill Richardson has not said whether he will sign the bill, but has said that he past support of the death penalty has "softened," as noted in this post.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).