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The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell wrote an interesting blog on the history of executions in New Mexico.
This is particularly relevant, of course, because of HB 285. That bill – legislation that would repeal the death penalty in New Mexico – is headed to the Senate floor for a vote after clearing the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
Terrell sprinkles in some interesting facts, writing, “Between 1913, when New Mexico became a state and 1933, 20 people were executed by hanging. During that period, executions were the responsibility of individual counties.”
He also goes on to recount each execution since New Mexico took over executions in 1933 — all nine of them. Some of the older ones are, well, not so cut and dry.
* June 13, 1947: Louis Young was the second black man accused of killing a white or Hispanic Santa Fe woman to die in the electric chair. Young was a prison inmate who worked as personal handyman at the prison warden’s home which was near the victim’s house. Young confessed to the crime following a late-night visit to his cell by authorities, though he soon recanted, saying the confession was forced. Despite efforts by civil rights organizations throughout the state, Young was executed.
An interesting read.
