{"id":1250,"date":"2007-02-12T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/house-votes-to-abolish-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:44:00","slug":"house-votes-to-abolish-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/house-votes-to-abolish-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to abolish death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RdDR2zSe5JI\/AAAAAAAAA4o\/hhSjBN_BCNA\/s1600-h\/Legislature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RdDR2zSe5JI\/AAAAAAAAA4o\/hhSjBN_BCNA\/s200\/Legislature.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030751523183715474\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The House has voted to abolish the death penalty in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On a vote of 41-28, the House just voted to replace the death penalty as the maximum punishment for a capital crime with life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The bill now moves to the Senate, which killed a similar bill in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThey perhaps do not deserve our mercy, but they do deserve justice,\u201d Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=181&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Gail Chasey<\/a>, D-Albuquerque and the sponsor of the bill, said before the vote. \u201c\u2026 The death penalty is very, very prone to error.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Chasey said money spent trying to enforce the death penalty could be better spent on crime prevention and help for victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cLife without possibility of parole should be the ultimate punishment,\u201d Chasey said. \u201cIt provides for rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Read the next article for in-depth coverage of the debate over the legislation.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House has voted to abolish the death penalty in New Mexico. On a vote of 41-28, the House just voted to replace the death penalty as the maximum punishment for a capital crime with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The bill now moves to the Senate, which killed a similar bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}