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New Mexico


State update

Link to the New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty

Good News! On March 18th, 2009 Governor Richardson signed the bill ending the death penalty in New Mexico!

The law abolishing the death penalty was not retroactive however and two men remain on death row.

Date death penalty abolished

March 18, 2009

How was the death penalty abolished?

Through legislation

Number of inmates on Federal Death Row who committed their crimes in New Mexico

0

Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973

4

Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973

  • Thomas Gladish, 1976
  • Richard Greer, 1976
  • Ronald Keine, 1976
  • Clarence Smith, 1976


There is no death penalty in this state.


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VIDEOS

(Not everything in these videos represents the views of Amnesty International)

Testimonials from Ray Krone (sentenced to death in the U.S. for a crime he didn't commit) and Mpagi Edward Edmary (sentenced to death in Uganda for a crime that never happened)

Death Penalty Mistake (about Leonel Herrera, executed in Texas in 1993)

Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti

Insanity on Death Row - CBS 60 Minutes (about Gregory Thompson, a mentally ill prisoner facing execution in Tennessee)

Video Footage of Execution Facility in North Carolina

Interview with an Executioner (hear a Mississippi executioner's surprising views on the death penalty)


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