May 17, 1956 - Terry D. Clark
The case drew significant attention not only for the brutal killing of a child but for Clark's place in New Mexico's modern penal history — his execution in 2001 was the first carried out by the state in over four decades. His crime involved the abduction and murder of nine-year-old Dena Lynn Gore, and the case moved through the courts over a period of years before the sentence was finally carried out.
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Terry Douglas Clark (May 17, 1956 – November 6, 2001) was an American murderer convicted of the murder of nine-year-old Dena Lynn Gore. He was executed by the state of New Mexico by means of lethal injection. He was the first and only person to be executed in New Mexico between the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 and its subsequent abolition within New Mexico in 2009. The previous execution in New Mexico had been the gas chamber death of David Cooper Nelson on August 11, 1960.
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