CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Bills and resolutions

Crime: impose the death penalty for kingpins of child sex slave trafficking enterprises (see H.R. 3913), H876 [8MR]

Letters

State eligibility for grants to improve legal representation of indigent defendants in State capital cases: James D. Bethke, Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense, S12039 [8DE], E2152 [6DE]

Remarks in House

Crime: impose the death penalty for kingpins of child sex slave trafficking enterprises (H.R. 3913), E315 [8MR]

Dept. of Justice: clarify State eligibility for grants to improve legal representation of indigent defendants in State capital cases, E2152 [6DE]

Foreign aid: prohibit allocations to countries refusing to extradite criminal suspects to the U.S. for trial or sentencing, H5878-H5881 [15JY]

Remarks in Senate

Courts: composition and management of State capital-counsel entities in States that do not have a public defender program, S10915, S10916 [9OC]

———temporary moratorium until a national commission reviews the justice, fairness, and due process of the administration of the death penalty (S. 132), S1994 [2MR]

Dept. of Justice: clarify State eligibility for grants to improve legal representation of indigent defendants in State capital cases, S10913 [9OC], S12038 [8DE]

Supreme Court: decision to review constitutionality of the execution of child offenders, S1994 [2MR]