[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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                   DEATH PENALTY URGED IN CRIME BILL

  (Mr. RAMSTAD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RAMSTAD. Mr. Speaker, this past Sunday began as a warm, beautiful 
spring day in Minnesota. As they have done for years, young people 
gathered at Lyndale Field next to Richfield High School in my district, 
to play soccer. Then in broad daylight, into a crowd of 150 players and 
spectators, three gunmen drove by and opened fire, killing one of those 
soccer players, critically injuring another soccer player, and hitting 
two more, including a 12-year-old boy.
  Mr. Speaker, these cold-blooded murders deserve nothing less than the 
death penalty. We need to equip Federal prosecutors with the power to 
try these cowardly drive-by killers who show the utmost disregard for 
human life.
  Mr. Speaker, the crime bill we will vote on later this week provides 
that death penalty and I truly hope we can put partisan politics aside 
and pass this much needed legislation. The American people and the 
victims of crime in America deserve nothing less.

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