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Governor Susana Martinez wants to reinstate the death penalty. Governor
Martinez says it would apply to anyone who kills a police officer. The death penalty was banned by Governor Bill Richardson in 2009.
This was the Top story in New Mexico on March 18th, 2009:
Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation Wednesday to repeal New Mexico’s death penalty, calling it the “most difficult decision in my political life.”
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,” the Democratic governor said at a news conference in the Capitol.
New Mexicans will be safer with the punishment of life in prison without parole because the worst criminals “will never get out of prison,” he said.
Richardson faced a deadline of midnight for making a decision on the bill that lawmakers sent him last week.
New Mexico is only the second state to ban executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
It is interesting that Both Richardson and Governor Martinez are Catholic.
Then in April of 2009 Richardson met with the Pope:
Richardson, a former Democratic presidential candidate and one of the most prominent U.S. Hispanic politicians, met the pope for several minutes at the end of the pontiff’s weekly general audience at the Vatican, Richardson’s spokesman said.
The two discussed New Mexico’s repeal of the death penalty last month, among other issues, the spokesman added.
Richardson was honored by the Pope in recognition of ending the Death penalty in New Mexico.
Let us know what you think?
Should the Death Penalty be reinstated fully or for the murder of Law Enforcement Officials only?
For more on Bill Richardson watch his recent visit with Bill O’Riley on accountability: https://fggam.org/bill-oreily-leaves-bill-richardson-hemming-and-hawing-over-obama-accountability/
