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New Mexico Repeal Vote Today

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House Bill 285 is item 43 on today's New Mexico Senate Calendar.  The body is set to convene at 10:00 am (MDT).  In the Santa Fe New Mexican, Steve Terrell reports, "Death-penalty debate: Decades of doubt."  It includes a lengthy history of capital punishment in the state.New Mexico for centuries has been reluctant to execute criminals, even though the state has had some form of capital punishment law on its books for virtually all of its history since the Spanish colonial era. Even during the blazing days of the Wild West, judges routinely requested Territorial governors commute death sentences. And governors frequently complied. Some governors even spoke out against the death penalty. Why the reluctance? Some speculate it's the influence of the Catholic Church...continue to full post

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