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NM: another hurdle cleared towards repeal

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via the wires: Legislation abolishing New Mexico’s death penalty has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee ? its highest hurdle yet ? and is headed to the full Senate for a vote. It already has passed the House, so if it were approved by the Senate without change, it would go to the governor for his signature. The bill replaces capital punishment with a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. There have been serious repeal efforts in New Mexico over the past decade, but no bill has gotten this far. “It’s been a long time coming,” Michelle Giger, a founder of Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation, said Monday after the judiciary panel’s 6-5 vote.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).