"Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime"...---Governor Bill Richardson signed a law on Wednesday repealing the death penalty in his home state of New Mexico.
"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."
New Mexico thus becomes the fifteenth state to abolish the death penalty.
Image- AFP (Governor Bill Richardsonat the 2008 Democratic National Convention).
Online Source- CNN
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