CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Articles and editorials

Execution Case Important to International Relations, S4217 [29JN]

Keeping Our Word—Scheduled Texas Execution Violates Treaty and Endangers Americans Abroad, S4217 [29JN]

Treaty and the Law, S4217 [29JN]

Why the U.S. Should Allow Arrested Foreigners To Contact Their Consulates, S4216 [29JN]

Bills and resolutions

Crime: provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty based on the status of the victim (see H.R. 815), H1250 (see H.R. 815), H1362 [18FE]

Dept. of Defense: clarify the right of an accused terrorist to plead guilty in a trial by a military commission for a capital offense (see H.R. 1894), H3300 [13MY]

Government: abolish under Federal law (see H.R. 3051), H6455 [23SE]

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: improve U.S. compliance relative to foreign nationals' access to their consulate and legal assistance (see S. 1194), S3773 [14JN]

Letters

Consular Notification Compliance Act: Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General and Hilary Rodham Clinton, Sec. of State, S4216 [29JN]

———several former diplomats and Dept. of State officials, S3781 [14JN]

———several former military officers, S3781 [14JN]

———several former prosecutors and judges, S3782 [14JN]

Remarks in House

Illinois: decision to abolish capital punishment, E452 [10MR]

Iran: condemn execution of political activists, E100 [24JA]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Justice: Solicitor General filing of brief with the Supreme Court supporting a stay of execution for Humberto Leal on grounds that Texas violated an international treaty, S4636-S4638 [18JY]

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: improve U.S. compliance relative to foreign nationals' access to their consulate and legal assistance (S. 1194), S3779 [14JN], S4215 [29JN], S4636-S4638 [18JY]

Texts of

S. 1194, Consular Notification Compliance Act, S3780 [14JN]