New Mexico
New Mexico has conducted 74 executions (only one since 1976). On March 18, 2009, New Mexico became the 15th state without a death penalty when then-Governor Bill Richardson signed the law replacing New Mexico's death penalty with life without parole. The law was not made retroactive; the two inmates on death row at the time remain there, although no further executions have been performed; crimes committed before the repeal may still result in a death penalty sentence (pending review). New Mexico does not house death row inmates at a consolidated facility. Executions are conducted at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe; the state's most recent execution was Terry Doug Clark by lethal injection on November 6, 2001.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Allen | Kidnapping, rape, and murder by strangulation of a teenage girl in 1994 | 1995 | Confined at the Central New Mexico Facility in Los Lunas |
| Robert Ray Fry | Murder by bludgeoning and stabbing of a Shiprock mother in 2000 | 2002 | Confined at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Death Row Inmates
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“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)