[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 9, 1994)]
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                    DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE RESTORED

  (Mr. GEKAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, as we begin contemplating the debate on the 
crime bill in the House, the American public should know that during 
the trial of the World Trade Center killers, those terrorists who 
killed six people, terrorized thousands, injured hundreds, and brought 
chaos to the city of New York and the surrounding area, that throughout 
that trial there was not one word spoken about the possibility of 
inflicting the death penalty on these intentional killings that were 
perpetrated by these terrorists.
  Why is that? Have you ever asked yourself?
  Well, No. 1, the State of New York has no death penalty even though 
the legislature has tried from time to time to do so. The Governor of 
that State has vetoed it every single time.
  Under Federal jurisdiction we have no Federal law to cover that kind 
of activity.
  Although we have been struggling for a generation to put back into 
the law the death penalty for those kinds of acts, we have been beaten 
down every single time by the liberal portions of this Congress.
  We intend to try again this time.

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