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Death-penalty debate: Decades of doubt

Death-penalty debate: Decades of doubtPhoto: Nov. 6, 2001: Maria Santelli, left, and Rian Haney pause for a moment of silence after Terry Clark is executed. Clark, who was convicted of the 1986 murder of 9-year-old Dena Lynn Gore in Artesia, voluntarily halted his appeals process. He is the only person in New Mexico to be executed by lethal injection.After centuries of commuted sentences and controversy, state closer than ever to repealing capital punishment Steve Terrell The New Mexican 3/12/2009 - 3/11/09 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...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).