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New Mexico and the Death Penalty

New Mexico allows the death penalty as an option in cases of first-degree murder or felony murder with aggravating circumstances.

The sentence is death by lethal injection.

New Mexico forbids the execution of the mentally retarded.

Minimum age for death penalty: 18

Executions 1930-1976: 8

Executions since 1977: 0

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