In this week's Reporter, I have
examining how the death penalty could affect the 2010 governor's race, particularly in the Republican primary. In an interview with SFR,
, R-Bernalillo--she voted to repeal the death penalty in 2007 and 2009--said that she would consider commutation for the two men currently on death row, Tim Allen and Robert Fry.
Hearing that statement, political analyst Brian Sanderoff had this to say:
Well, that hasn't materialized yet, though former New Mexico Republican Party chairman and
was quick to release his own statement on the death penalty, without anything remotely close to a dig at Arnold-Jones:
The weird thing about this statement is that while police officers are (or were) covered by
, the elderly are not, nor are children unless the murder involves kidnapping or molestation/rape. So, it kinda reads like, on the one hand, he's proposing the death penalty be reinstated but limited to a DNA evidence standard and on the other he'd like to see it expanded to include new crimes.
Santa Fe Reporter