N.M. Stat. § 30-2-1
Murder.
A. Murder in the first degree is the killing of one human being by another without
lawful justification or excuse, by any of the means with which death may be caused:
(1)
by any kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing;
(2)
in the commission of or attempt to commit any felony; or
(3)
by any act greatly dangerous to the lives of others, indicating a depraved
mind regardless of human life.
Whoever commits murder in the first degree is guilty of a capital felony.
B. Unless he is acting upon sufficient provocation, upon a sudden quarrel or in the
heat of passion, a person who kills another human being without lawful justification or
excuse commits murder in the second degree if in performing the acts which cause the
death he knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm
to that individual or another.
Murder in the second degree is a lesser included offense of the crime of murder in
the first degree.
Whoever commits murder in the second degree is guilty of a second degree felony
resulting in the death of a human being.