SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Defense attorneys for New Mexico's last two death row inmates on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to consider an array of similar murder cases resulting in lighter sentences, as justices weigh whether to move forward with the executions in a state that no longer allows death sentences.
New Mexico repealed capital punishment for future murderers in 2009 without canceling death sentences against Robert Fry and Timothy Allen in connection with two brutal killings. New Mexico's governor at the time, Bill Richardson, signed the repeal without commuting their sentences.
