Key Votes
HB 285 - Abolishing the Death Penalty - Key Vote
New Mexico Key Votes
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Stages
- March 18, 2009 Executive Signed
- March 13, 2009 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 11, 2009 House Bill Passed
- Jan. 26, 2009 Introduced
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Legislation - Signed (Executive) - March 18, 2009
Title: Abolishing the Death Penalty
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (24-18) - March 13, 2009 (Key vote)
Title: Abolishing the Death Penalty
Vote to pass a bill that removes the death penalty as a possible sentence for those convicted of first degree murder for crimes committed on or after July 1, 2009, and specifies that the offender be sentenced to either life imprisonment or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
- - The victim was an on-duty peace officer;
- The crime was committed with the intent to kill during the commission of or attempt to commit kidnapping, criminal sexual contact of a minor, or criminal sexual penetration;
- The crime was committed with the intent to kill while attempting to escape from a penal institution;
- The crime was committed while incarcerated in a penal institution with the intent to kill, and the victim was also incarcerated in the penal institution, was lawfully on the premises of the penal institution, or an employee of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department;
- The crime was committed for hire; or
- The victim was a witness to a crime or any person likely to become a witness to a crime, for the purpose of preventing the victim from reporting the crime or testifying in a criminal proceeding, or for retaliation for the victim having testified in a criminal proceeding.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (40-28) - Feb. 11, 2009 (Key vote)
Title: Abolishing The Death Penalty
Vote to pass a bill that removes the death penalty as a possible sentence for those convicted of first degree murder for crimes committed on or after July 1, 2009, and specifies that the offender be sentenced to either life imprisonment or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
- - The victim was an on-duty peace officer;
- The crime was committed with the intent to kill during the commission of or attempt to commit kidnapping, criminal sexual contact of a minor, or criminal sexual penetration;
- The crime was committed with the intent to kill while attempting to escape from a penal institution;
- The crime was committed while incarcerated in a penal institution with the intent to kill, and the victim was also incarcerated in the penal institution, was lawfully on the premises of the penal institution, or an employee of the corrections and criminal rehabilitation department;
- The crime was committed for hire; or
- The victim was a witness to a crime or any person likely to become a witness to a crime, for the purpose of preventing the victim from reporting the crime or testifying in a criminal proceeding, or for retaliation for the victim having testified in a criminal proceeding.
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 26, 2009
Title: Abolishing The Death Penalty