CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Addresses

Witness to Life—Catholic Church and the Death Penalty: Roger Mahony, S7826-S7828 [27JY]

Articles and editorials

Death Edict for the Guilty Only, S4682 [7JN]

Innocent on Death Row, S4681, S4682 [7JN]

New Looks at the Death Penalty, S4683 [7JN]

On Virginia's Death Row, S4683 [7JN]

Require Certainty Before Executing, S7820 [27JY]

Thoughts on Executions, S4681 [7JN]

We're Not Executing the Innocent, E1063 [20JN]

Bills and resolutions

Civil liberties: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (see H.R. 4888), H6599 [19JY]

Courts: ensure that defendants in capital cases have adequate counsel and allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (see S. 2073), S613 [10FE] (see S. 2690), S4669 [7JN]

———reduce the risk that innocent persons may be executed (see H.R. 4078), H1405 [23MR] (see H.R. 4167), H1762 [4AP]

———temporary moratorium to ensure that defendants have adequate counsel and to allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (see H.R. 3623), H340 [10FE] (see H.R. 4162), H1762 [4AP]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (see S. 2463), S2940 [26AP] (see S. 3048), S8585 [14SE] (see H.R. 5236, 5237), H7990 [21SE]

Crime: national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (see S. 2783), S5790 [26JN]

Descriptions

Innocent Child Protection Act (H.R. 4888), H6796 [25JY]

Letters

Request for a conditional pardon and a new trial for Gary Graham in Texas capital case: Congressional Black Caucus, E1059 [20JN]

Poems

``Credo of the Executioner'', E1096 [23JN]

Remarks in House

Civil liberties: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (H.R. 4888), H6792-H6797 [25JY]

Courts: emergency national moratorium, H1944 [6AP]

———errors in capital punishment sentencing, E1063 [20JN]

———reduce the risk that innocent persons may be executed (H.R. 4167), H6797 [25JY]

Crime: death penalty sentencing and imposition, H7064 [26JY]

Gore, Vice President: remarks on the execution of pregnant inmates, H6473 [19JY]

Graham, Gary: execution in Texas capital case, E1096 [23JN]

———request for a conditional pardon and a new trial in Texas captial case, H4910, H4915 [21JN], H5032 [22JN], E1059 [20JN]

Illinois: decision by Governor Ryan to stay all executions until a State panel can review implementation of death sentences, H1944 [6AP]

Texas: request for Governor Bush to stay all executions until a State panel can review implementation of death sentences, H4915 [21JN], H5032 [22JN]

Remarks in Senate

Civil liberties: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (H.R. 4888), S7952 [27JY]

Courts: ensure that defendants in capital cases have adequate counsel and allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence, S198-S200 [1FE]

———ensure that defendants in capital cases have adequate counsel and allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (S. 2073), S4508-S4510 [6JN], S7819 [27JY], S10793-S10795 [19OC]

———ensure that defendants in capital cases have adequate counsel and allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (S. 2690), S4673-S4676, S4683, S4684 [7JN], S10648-S10650 [18OC], S11810 [15DE]

———temporary moratorium to ensure that defendants have adequate counsel and to allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence, S5656, S5657 [22JN]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty, S7826 [27JY], S8408 [12SE], S11736 [7DE]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (S. 2463), S2940 [26AP], S4177 [18MY], S4508-S4510 [6JN], S11323 [29OC]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (S. 3048), S8587 [14SE], S11323 [29OC]

Crime: death penalty sentencing and imposition, S10648-S10650 [18OC]

———national policy to control crime and reform court procedures (S. 2783), S5790 [26JN]

Garza, Juan: postponement of execution relative to Dept. of Justice action on clemency guidelines, S6404 [11JY]

Illinois: decision by Governor Ryan to stay all executions until a State panel can review implementation of death sentences, S139 [31JA]

International Abolition Day: observance, S1022 [1MR]

New Hampshire: legislative action to abolish the death penalty, S4177 [18MY]

Supreme Court: reconsideration of execution of Johnny Paul Penry relative to mental retardation, S11810 [15DE]

Summaries

Innocence Protection Act (S. 2690), S4680 [7JN]

Texts of

H.R. 4888, Innocent Child Protection Act, H6792 [25JY]

S. 2690, Innocence Protection Act, S4676-S4680 [7JN]