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The Death Penalty in New Mexico

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Albuquerque Journal writer Leslie Linthicum writes "Closing the N.M. Death Penalty Door."  The death penalty has been repealed, but two capital trials may yet take place for crimes committed before the new law took effect.  Linthicum's column appeared in the Thursday edition.  Here's an extended excerpt:If I'm going to start a diet on Monday morning, you can be sure to find me face-first in the ice cream container on Sunday night. It is the yo-yo dieter's logic that it's a good idea to get all the fattening stuff out of the house ? yes, by eating it ? before the calorie restriction begins. The state of New Mexico launched a diet Wednesday, cutting out death sentences for murders from our moral menu...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).