State Gets Advice From Texas on Execution
New Mexico has hired two executioners from Texas, which has the country’s busiest death row, to provide “technical assistance” for New Mexico’s first execution since 1960, state officials said.
The two unnamed experts from the Texas state prison in Huntsville will travel twice to a New Mexico penitentiary near Santa Fe: once in October to help with preparations for the lethal injection and a second time for the scheduled Nov. 6 execution of Terry Clark.
Clark, 47, pleaded guilty to the 1986 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in Artesia, N.M. He has asked to die and in August won a court’s permission to drop all appeals.
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