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Uncertain Fates

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Dave Maass' article in the Santa Fe Reporter.  It's subtitled, "NM's next governor could commute death sentences."  Here's an extended excerpt:And you thought capital punishment was dead. Although the New Mexico Legislature voted to repeal the death penalty in March, the new law doesn?t impact the two men currently on death row or any others who could be sentenced to death for crimes committed before July 2009. Gov. Bill Richardson told reporters at the bill signing that he wouldn?t use his pardon power to commute the remaining sentences, and so death-penalty opponents looked to the New Mexico Supreme Court for relief. In May, the court?s justices entertained the idea of finishing what the Legislature started, during oral arguments in the case of accused deputy-killer Michael Astorga...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).