CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Bills and resolutions

Government: abolish under Federal law (see S. 122), S145 [24JA]

States: impose a moratorium on the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in certain States (see H.R. 379), H233 [26JA]

Terrorism: provide the death penalty for certain terrorism related crimes and make other modifications of law relating to the penalty of death (see H.R. 3060), H5176 [24JN]

Veterans: modify circumstances under which a person who has committed a capital offense is denied certain burial-related benefits and funeral honors (see S. 1813), S10823 [3OC] (see H.R. 4352), H10502 [16NO]

Remarks in House

Courts: imposition of Federal death penalty for killing of certain Federal public safety officers, H10101 [9NO]

———limit judicial review for certain harmless error sentencing claims, H7906, H7907 [14SE]

———repeal mandatory minimum penalties and the death penalty for unintentional acts relative to violent crimes against children, H7905, H7906 [14SE]

Foreign aid: prohibit assistance to countries refusing to extradite criminal suspects to the U.S. for trial or sentencing, H5339, H5340 [28JN]

Supreme Court: decision on the execution of juveniles, H947, H974 [3MR]

Terrorism: provide the death penalty for certain terrorism related crimes and make other modifications of law relating to the penalty of death, H6286, H6287 [21JY]

Victims' rights: protect, H11183 [7DE]

Remarks in Senate

Death penalty: reconsider, S14301 [21DE]

Foreign aid: prohibit assistance to countries refusing to extradite criminal suspects to the U.S. for trial or sentencing, S12399 [4NO]

Government: abolish under Federal law (S. 122), S313 [24JA]

Supreme Court: decision on the execution of juveniles, S1857 [1MR]

Veterans: modify circumstances under which a person who has committed a capital offense is denied certain burial-related benefits and funeral honors, S12564 [9NO], S12673 [10NO]

———modify circumstances under which a person who has committed a capital offense is denied certain burial-related benefits and funeral honors (S. 1813), S10826 [3OC]

Texts of

S. 122, Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act, S314 [24JA]

S. 1813, modify circumstances under which a veteran who has committed a capital offense is denied certain burial-related benefits and funeral honors, S10827 [3OC]