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New Mexico governor repeals death penalty
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| Last Edited | COSDem Mar 18, 2009 08:19pm |
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| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Thursday, March 19, 2009 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed a bill Wednesday repealing the death penalty in his state, his office confirmed.
"Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime," Richardson said in a statement Wednesday.
"If the State is going to undertake this awesome responsibility, the system to impose this ultimate penalty must be perfect and can never be wrong."
The bill replaces the death penalty with life without the possibility of parole.
"Faced with the reality that our system for imposing the death penalty can never be perfect, my conscience compels me to replace the death penalty with a solution that keeps society safe," he said.
Prior to signing the legislation, Richardson received thousands of e-mails and phone calls on whether he should sign legislation to abolish the death penalty, his office says. |
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