CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Articles and editorials

Despite McVeigh Case, Curbs on Executions Are Gaining Support, S5957-S5959 [7JN]

Bills and resolutions

Civil liberties: prohibit the execution of pregnant women (see H.R. 1595), H1657 [26AP]

Courts: death penalty sentencing for certain importations of significant quantities of controlled substances (see H.R. 213), H62 [6JA]

———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. 486), S1971 [7MR] (see H.R. 912), H739 [7MR]

———temporary moratorium on carrying out the death penalty to allow those convicted to have a reasonable opportunity to present new evidence of innocence (see H.R. 321), H162 [31JA]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (see S. 233), S915 [31JA] (see H.R. 1038), H952 [15MR]

Crime: funding for States relative to legislation requiring death penalty in certain cases (see H.R. 201), H62 [6JA]

Government: abolish under Federal law (see S. 191), S568 [25JA]

Remarks in House

Abolish, H3265 [20JN]

China, People's Republic of: use of organs from executed prisoners, H4187-H4189 [18JY], E1255 [29JN]

Remarks in Senate

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, S1374-S1376 [14FE]

———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. 486), S1999, S2006 [7MR], S7418 [10JY], S8899 [3AU]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty, S5001 [16MY], S5954-S5956 [7JN], S6052 [11JN]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (S. 233), S923-S925 [31JA]

Garza, Juan R.: execution in Federal capital case, S6440, S6441 [19JN]

Government: abolish under Federal law (S. 191), S581-S585 [25JA]

McVeigh, Timothy: delay of execution for bombing of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, relative to FBI delay in release of evidence, S5001 [16MY], S5957 [7JN]

Statements

Broadcasting Executions to the Public: Derek Wong, Drew Arnold, Theresa Savaglio, and Alex Whittelseui, E1757 [2OC]

Summaries

Innocence Protection Act (S. 486), S2006 [7MR]

Testimonies

Use of Organs From Executed Prisoners in the People's Republic of China: Wang Guoqi, H4188 [18JY], E1256 [29JN]

Texts of

S. 191, Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act, S585 [25JA]

S. 233, National Death Penalty Moratorium Act, S925-S927 [31JA]

S. 486, Innocence Protection Act, S2000-S2006 [7MR]