The New Mexico House of Representatives vot­ed February 11 to repeal the death penal­ty. After a more than two-hour debate, the House vot­ed 40 to 28 in favor of replac­ing the death penal­ty with life in prison with­out parole. This is the third time in recent years New Mexico’s House of Representatives has vot­ed to ban cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. House Bill 285 will now move to the senate. 

(S. Terrell, ​“House Votes to Abolsih the Death Penalty,” The New Mexican, February 11, 2009). See Recent Legislation.


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