The highest court of the New Mexico Judiciary is the New Mexico Supreme Court, composed of five judges. These judges are elected by the population of the State for terms of up to five years. The election for a judge is held annually for only one of five court positions. The second largest court in the state is the Court of Appeals of New Mexico, composed of seven judges elected for terms of up to eight years. As in the Supreme Court, these elections are held annually, for only one of the positions of the court. New Mexico has judicial districts, which have a total of 47 judges, elected by the population of their respective districts for terms of up to six years.
“The judicial branch consists of a supreme court, an appeals court, district courts, probate courts, magistrate courts, and other inferior courts as created by law.
The supreme court is composed of a chief justice and four associate justices; the appeals court, created to take over some of the supreme court's caseload, is composed of 10 judges. All are elected for eight-year terms.
The state's 33 counties are divided into 13 judicial districts, served by 72 district judges, each elected for a six-year term. District courts have unlimited general jurisdiction and are commonly referred to as trial courts. They also serve as courts of review for decisions of lower courts and administrative agencies. Each county has a probate court, served by a probate judge who is elected from within the county for a two-year term.
In 2001, New Mexico had a total crime rate of 5,324.0 per 100,000 persons, including a total of 14,288 violent crimes and 83,095 crimes against property in that year. In June 2001, there were 5,288 inmates held in state and federal correctional facilities, an increase of 0.2% over the previous year. The state's incarceration rate stood at 281 per 100,000 inhabitants.
New Mexico imposes the death penalty but has only executed one person since 1976. In 2003, there were three prisoners under sentence of death.”
Muslims believe that God had previously revealed Himself to the earlier prophets of the Jews and Christians, such as Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Muslims therefore accept the teachings of both the Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospels.
Provided labor--the headright system brought in indentured servants for farmers in the colonies.
Through the headright system, men were brought to America as indentured servants who would work for a farmer for a set time to work off a debt for passage. They would be freed after a set of time and typically provided money or land to begin their own industry.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be "the Bahamas" during the tim of colonization, since it was here that Natives and Africans were exploited to produce sugar for export.</span></span>
