CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Addresses

Road to Justice and Peace: Raymond Lesniak, E267 [12FE]

Bills and resolutions

China: urge release of incarcerated democratic activist Liu Xiaobo (see H. Con. Res. 151), H6743 [12JN]

Constitutional amendments: allow the death penalty for the rape of a child (see H.J. Res. 51), H5399 [7MY]

Courts: clarify availability of Federal habeas corpus relief for a person who is sentenced to death though actually innocent (see H.R. 3986), H12287 [3NO]

Government: abolish under Federal law (see S. 650), S3550 [19MR]

Supreme Court: express that Kennedy v. Louisiana was erroneously decided and that the death penalty can be imposed for the rape of a child (see S. Res. 4), S43 [6JA]

Letters

Expand authorization for death penalty to include non-homicide hate crimes: Michael W. Macleod-Ball, Christopher E. Anders, and Jennifer Bellamy, ACLU, S7685 [20JY]

———Thomas M. Susman, ABA, S7686 [20JY]

Expand authorization for death penalty to include non-homicide hate crimes and identify and prosecute hate crimes offenses according to guidelines using neutral and objective criteria: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, S7685 [20JY]

Remarks in House

China: urge release of incarcerated democratic activist Liu Xiaobo (H. Con. Res. 151), H10105, H10106 [30SE]

Courts: clarify availability of Federal habeas corpus relief for a person who is sentenced to death though actually innocent (H.R. 3986), H12208 [3NO]

Crime: allow imposition of death penalty for certain hate crime offenses and include the elderly, Armed Forces members, and law enforcement officers as hate crime victim categories, H4956, H4957 [29AP]

Lesniak, Raymond: Memorial de Caen International Human Rights Competition winner, E267 [12FE]

Remarks in Senate

China: urge release of incarcerated democratic activist Liu Xiaobo, S13695 [21DE], S14137 [24DE]

Dept. of Justice: limit prosecution of hate crimes offenses until standards are established for the application of the death penalty, S7684 [20JY]

Government: abolish under Federal law (S. 650), S3558-S3560 [19MR]

Hate crimes: expand authorization for death penalty to include non-homicide hate crimes, S7683, S7684 [20JY]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 151, urge China to release incarcerated democratic activist Liu Xiaobo, H10105 [30SE]

S. 650, Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act, S3560-S3563 [19MR]

S. Res. 4, express that Kennedy v. Louisiana was erroneously decided and that the death penalty can be imposed for the rape of a child, S148 [6JA]