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]
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