CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Bills and resolutions

Courts: allow post-conviction DNA testing, improve performance of lawyers and judges handling State capital criminal cases, and ensure quality of defense counsel in Federal capital cases (see S. 2739), S6947 [17JY]

———ensure that defendants have a true opportunity to have their cases considered by the courts (see S. 2443), S3842 [2MY]

———ensure that defendants have a true opportunity to have their cases considered by the courts and provide all prisoners with an opportunity to present exculpatory DNA evidence (see S. 2446), S3843 [2MY]

———ensure that indigent defendants in State courts receive adequate legal representation (see S. 2442), S3842 [2MY]

Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see H. Con. Res. 351), H932 [14MR]

Court documents

Hamilton v. Texas, S3860 [2MY]

Remarks in Senate

Courts: allow post-conviction DNA testing, improve performance of lawyers and judges handling State capital criminal cases, and ensure quality of defense counsel in Federal capital cases (S. 2739), S6950 [17JY]

———ensure that defendants have a true opportunity to have their cases considered by the courts (S. 2443), S3859-S3865 [2MY]

———ensure that defendants have a true opportunity to have their cases considered by the courts and provide all prisoners with an opportunity to present exculpatory DNA evidence (S. 2446), S3859-S3865 [2MY]

———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), S889-S891 [15FE], S2478 [10AP], S11247 [18NO]

———ensure that indigent defendants in State courts receive adequate legal representation (S. 2442), S3859-S3865 [2MY]

———exonerations based on postconviction DNA testing, S889-S891 [15FE], S2478 [10AP]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (S. 233), S2478 [10AP], S2630 [12AP], S2692-S2694 [16AP], S5845 [20JN]

Crime: allow for possibility of death penalty in the prosecution of hate crimes, S5267-S5269, S5272-S5276 [10JN], S5327-S5330 [11JN]

Illinois: Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment report, S2692-S2694 [16AP]

Supreme Court: decision on execution of mentally disabled individuals, S5845 [20JN], S6008 [25JN]

Reports filed

Innocence Protection Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 486) (S. Rept. 107-315), S10570 [16OC]

Texts of

S. 2442, Capital Defense Counsel Standards Act, S3870 [2MY]

S. 2443, Death Penalty Review Act, S3870 [2MY]

S. 2446, Confidence in Criminal Justice Act, S3865-S3868 [2MY]