THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NEW MEXICO

LWVNM Death Penalty Study, 2005-2006

At its May 2005 convention, League of Women Voters of New Mexico accepted a proposal for a one-year state study leading to a state position on the death penalty. The following local League unit meetings will be devoted to this study during 2005-2006:

• Los Alamos: September 29, 2005
• Albuquerque/Bernalillo County: October 13, 17, 18 and 19, 2005
• Santa Fe County: November 7 and 9, 2005
• Greater Las Cruces: TBD, 2006

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LWV studies of the Death Penalty

LWV of New York State

LWV of Ohio (scroll down)

Maryland LWV (under Studies and Reports)

LWV of Illinois

LWV of Massachusetts (under current League testimony)

LWV of New Jersey

Papers

State Bar of New Mexico Task Force to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty in New Mexico (January 2004). Final Report

Justice Blackmun (1994). Dissenting opinion in the 1994 decision of Callins v. Collins (510 U.S. 1141), explaining why the death penalty should be repealed.

Mentor, Kenneth (2002). The Death Penalty Returns to New Mexico. History from 1972 to 2001 by a member of the Department of Criminal Justice at NMSU.

Allan, Mark. Capital Punishment or Compassion: Executions in the State of New Mexico: The Death Penalty Since Territorial Days. Discussion of the early history of the death penalty in NM by Mark Allan, Head of Reference at the Angelo State University Library.

Goertzel, Ted (2004). Capital Punishment and Homicide: Sociological Realities and Econometric Illusions. This article by a Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University explains why the data used to prove the deterrent value of executions are misleading.

Description of the 2004 Justice for All Act.

Websites

The ACLU actively lobbies against the death penalty.

ABA scholarly forum on the pros and cons of the death penalty (1997).

prodeathpenalty.com. This site is being developed as a resource for those searching the internet for pro-death penalty information and resources.

dpinfo.com This is another pro-death penalty website.

Death Penalty Information Center. This is an anti-death penalty website.

Death Penalty Information and Resources from the American Society of Criminology. See also their newer site.

NM coalition of organizations and individuals committed to complete repeal of the death penalty.

Papers on death penalty topics from The American Prospect; anti-death penalty.

Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota.