Un appello del Papa per salvare la vita di Terry Clark � stato presentato al Governatore G. Johnson, per mezzo del Nunzio Mgr. Montalvo.

L�esecuzione � prevista per il 6 novembre.

POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS ASKED NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR GARY JOHNSON to commute the death sentence of convicted murderer Terry Clark to life imprisonment. The pope's plea was conveyed to Johnson by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S.

Clark's scheduled Nov. 6 execution would be the state's first in 41 years.

Clark has asked that his appeals be waived. The courts have ruled that he is competent to do so, even though experts have testified that he has brain damage and is suffering from depression based on his having been isolated from family and friends and the harsh conditions at his prison.

Death penalty opponents hope that the papal request and similar ones from the state's three Catholic bishops will be effective in light of the state's large Catholic population and the fact that a bill to repeal its capital punishment law failed by only one vote in the State Senate earlier this year.