CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Articles and editorials

Countdown to Execution No. 300, S3404 [10MR]

DNA That Freed Man Leads to New Suspect; Killing—Kirk Bloodsworth, Convicted and Then Cleared in the Rape-Murder of a Child, Learns a Man He Knew in Prison Is Charged With the Crimes, S11751 [22SE]

Protection Racket—Congress Prepares To Fund the Anti-Death-Penalty Lobby, S14050 [5NO]

Review of DNA Clears Man Convicted of Rape, S3719 [13MR]

Tex. Execution Stayed at Last Minute—Supreme Court Considers Review, S3720 [13MR]

Tex. Lawmakers Probe Lab Over Reports of Tainted DNA Evidence, S3719 [13MR]

Bills and resolutions

Bush, President: renegotiate extradition treaty with Mexico so possibility of capital punishment or life imprisonment will not interfere with the extradition of criminal suspects (see H. Con. Res. 93), H1902 [13MR]

Courts: temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (see S. 132), S133 [9JA]

Government: abolish under Federal law (see S. 402), S2457 [13FE] (see H.R. 2574), H5813 [24JN]

Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (see S. Con. Res. 26), S4166 [20MR] (see H. Con. Res. 26), H244 [29JA]

Terrorism: increase criminal penalties for terrorist offenses resulting in death and deny Federal benefits to convicted terrorists (see S. 1604), S11349 [10SE]

Letters

Federal capital cases decision-making process: Senator Feingold, S3876 [18MR]

Remarks in House

Bush, President: renegotiate extradition treaty with Mexico so possibility of capital punishment or life imprisonment will not interfere with the extradition of criminal suspects (H. Con. Res. 93), E884 [7MY]

Dept. of Justice: prohibit funding from being used for the sentencing phase of Federal death penalty cases, H7315, H7316 [22JY]

Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (H. Con. Res. 26), H1913-H1915 [18MR], E518 [19MR]

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, S3717-S3719 [13MR], S3874 [18MR]

———exonerations based on postconviction DNA testing, S11751 [22SE]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (S. 132), S160 [9JA], S843 [15JA], S3875 [18MR]

Crime: capital punishment relative to racial discrimination, S3404 [10MR]

Government: abolish under Federal law (S. 402), S2475-S2477 [13FE]

Human rights: condemn the practice of execution by stoning (S. Con. Res. 26), S4181 [20MR], S5977 [8MY]

Illinois: decision by former Governor Ryan to pardon and commute sentences of death row inmates, S843 [15JA]

———decision by Governor Blagojevich to continue moratorium on capital punishment, S5532 [30AP]

Terrorism: increase criminal penalties for terrorist offenses resulting in death and deny Federal benefits to convicted terrorists (S. 1604), S11240 [9SE]

Reports filed

Condemn the Practice of Execution by Stoning: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. Con. Res. 26), S5538 [30AP]

Resolutions by organizations

Secure right of the U.S., and the States, to prosecute and punish crimes committed in the U.S. by individuals who subsequently flee to Mexico to escape prosecution: International Association of Chiefs of Police, S14278 [7NO]

Statements

Forced Labor, Organ Harvesting, and Capital Punishment in the People's Republic of China: Laogai Research Foundation, E1960 [2OC]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 26, condemn the practice of execution by stoning, H1913 [18MR]

S. 132, National Death Penalty Moratorium Act, S161-S164 [9JA]

S. 402, Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act, S2477 [13FE]

S. 1604, Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act, S11240 [9SE], S11351 [10SE]

S. Con. Res. 26, condemn the practice of execution by stoning, S4180 [20MR], S5978 [8MY]