Welcome!

March 25, 2011

Dear NM Repeal and Murder Victim Family Advocacy Project members and supporters:

Thank you!  We successfully stopped all three bills to reinstate the death penalty in NM during the 2011 legislative session!  Thanks for all your calls, letters and meetings you had with Legislators – they heard the message that NM does not want or need the death penalty.

And with that, our Coalition is going “dormant,” closing down like we promised to do, and becoming an all-volunteer organization.  We will reactivate during legislative sessions if there is ever another attempt to bring back the death penalty to New Mexico.

We have over 140 supporting organizations in our Coalition, and NM Repeal was created with the sole purpose of repealing the death penalty in New Mexico.  Our many partners in New Mexico will always be very aware of any reinstatement efforts.  These partners include the New Mexico Conference of Churches, the ACLU-NM, the National Association of Social Workers – NM, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry, our New Mexico Catholic Bishops, the NM Public Defenders and the NM Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.  NM Repeal, via its allies, will continue to monitor the legislature for hints of a serious effort to reinstate the death penalty here in New Mexico, and you can be assured we will call on you to help us squash any such legislation.  Additionally, while serious opportunities to repeal the Federal death penalty are still a few years off, as an NCADP Affiliate we will be the vehicle for New Mexicans to assist in that campaign.

Interested in working on the death penalty in other places?  Great!  We are an Affiliate of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and they are available to you at any time you are interested in further educational efforts in your community.  You can contact them at www.ncadp.org or (202) 331-4090.  Become a member and keep up with all the latest news about abolition efforts elsewhere!

We are so lucky to have such wonderful supporters, and we appreciate all you have done for repeal in New Mexico.  Our website will remain live at www.nmrepeal.org, and you can always reach us at info@nmrepeal.org.

Thank you for your active support over the last decade.  Please check back during the 2012 session and we will have all the latest news about the death penalty in New Mexico.

Thanks for being a part of something truly amazing!

Viki Harrison and the whole NM Repeal team