This is a welcome bit of news from the New York Times:
The legislation replaces lethal injection with a sentence of life in prison 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,” Mr. Richardson said at a news conference in the Capitol.
via Death Penalty Is Repealed in New Mexico – NYTimes.com.
Thank you, New Mexico, for joining the civilized world in repealing the barbaric and completely fallible death penalty.
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