{"id":200,"date":"2006-04-13T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/04\/friday-bonus-zamora-supports-death-penalty-%e2%80%98in-limited-cases%e2%80%99-and-those-links-i-promised\/"},"modified":"2006-04-13T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T05:18:00","slug":"friday-bonus-zamora-supports-death-penalty-%e2%80%98in-limited-cases%e2%80%99-and-those-links-i-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/04\/friday-bonus-zamora-supports-death-penalty-%e2%80%98in-limited-cases%e2%80%99-and-those-links-i-promised\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday bonus: Zamora supports death penalty \u2018in limited cases,\u2019 and those links I promised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Zamora,%20Geno.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/320\/Zamora%2C%20Geno.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I blogged a last week about how the recent cop killing in Bernalillo County makes the death penalty a hot issue in this election year. One source told me it would be a touchy subject for the Democratic candidates for attorney general, who could alienate the Catholic Church and Northern New Mexico liberals by supporting the death penalty or the rest of the state by opposing it. I called on those candidates, three Democrats and one Republican, to go on the record by sharing their stances on the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>I have sent out two e-mail requests for statements from the candidates in the past week. On Thursday, I heard back from Democrat Geno Zamora\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeno believes that the death penalty is necessary in limited cases, such as those that exist in statute: murder for hire, murder of a child, murder during rape, murder of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty, murder of a corrections officer in prison, and murder of a witness to a crime,\u201d wrote Zamora\u2019s campaign manager, Allan Oliver. \u201cAt the same time, he strongly advocates for additional funding for DNA testing and a proper legal defense of the accused \u2013 both to assure that the case is not later overturned, and to guarantee that the guilty are punished and the innocent go free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other candidates have not yet responded to my request.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Though I haven\u2019t blogged on the national immigration debate, it\u2019s an important topic to address. Here are some links to what others are saying that I found interesting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/csm\/20060413\/cm_csm\/elatino\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ucac\/brownisthenewblack\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Coulter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/450913nm04-13-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> article<\/p>\n<p>So ends another week in the Land of Enchantment. Thanks for reading, and come back Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged a last week about how the recent cop killing in Bernalillo County makes the death penalty a hot issue in this election year. One source told me it would be a touchy subject for the Democratic candidates for attorney general, who could alienate the Catholic Church and Northern New Mexico liberals by supporting [&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-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}