CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN NEW MEXICO.Here's a list of all legal executions performed by the New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). Department of Corrections (between 1913 and 1929 all executions were the responsibilities of individual county sheriffs): July 21, 1933: Two men die in the state's new electric chair. The first was Thomas Johnson Thomas Johnson may refer to:
n. A spouse's son by a previous union. stepson Noun a son of one's husband or wife by an earlier relationship Noun 1. . Garduno gave the boy a drink of whiskey laced with strychnine strychnine (strĭk`nĭn), bitter alkaloid drug derived from the seeds of a tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, native to Sri Lanka, Australia, and India. . May 10, 1946: Pedro Talamonte, who was convicted in Gallup of murdering his 25-year-old wife. June 13, 1947: Louis Young was the second black man accused of killing a 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 interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. in his cell by authorities, though he soon recanted. Feb. 19, 1954: Arthur Johnson, who was convicted of murdering and robbing a Hobbs man. Oct. 29, 1954: Frederick Heisler, who was convicted of murdering a man who had given him a ride hitchhiking Hitchhiking (also known as lifting, thumbing, hitching, autostop or thumbing up a ride) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people (usually strangers) for a ride in their automobile to travel a distance that may either be a short or long distance. . Feb. 24, 1956: James Larry Upton, who also was convicted of murdering a man who had given him a ride hitchhiking. According to newspaper accounts, several spectators at his electrocution electrocution Method of execution in which the condemned person is subjected to a heavy charge of electric current. The prisoner is shackled into a wired chair, and electrodes are fastened to the head and one leg so that the current will flow through the body. were drunk and rowdy. Jan. 8, 1960: David Cooper Nelson, who was the first and only New Mexico inmate to die in the gas chamber. |
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