Urges the Administration to: (1) explain the full extent of its cooperation with the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission investigation of capital punishment in the United States; (2) provide the Congress with a detailed written explanation of the assistance offered by all U.S. Government agencies, particularly the Department of State, for the investigation, and a full explanation of the costs to the United States of the Commission's investigation; (3) ascertain and provide to the Congress a list of other countries to be visited by Mr. Ndiaya, a UN special investigator; (4) state the Administration's position on the view that extrajudicial summary and arbitrary executions occur in the American judicial system; and (5) continue to oppose any global standard on capital punishment imposed on the United States by the Commission or any other UN body.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House International Relations
Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to House Judiciary
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
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