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HR 1332 100th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Assassination Capital punishment Courts and Civil Procedure Crime prevention Criminal procedure Criminal procedure and sentencing Judicial review Presidential protection Presidents and Vice Presidents Sentences (Criminal procedure)

A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to establish procedures for imposition of the death penalty for Presidential assassination, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 2, 1987 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 5, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Criminal Justice.
Mar 2, 1987
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Mar 2, 1987
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Federal criminal code to establish procedures for the imposition of the death penalty for presidential assassination.

Requires a separate sentencing hearing before a jury, or the court upon motion by the defendant, when the defendant is found guilty or pleads guilty to an offense punishable by death.

Provides that no presentence report shall be prepared in such cases. Allows the defendant and the Government to present any information relevant to sentencing, without regard to the rules of evidence, but permits information to be excluded where its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading of the jury.

Specifies mitigating factors which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the information and aggravating factors which the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

Conditions imposition of the death penalty on a unanimous finding by the jury (or finding by the court) that: (1) some aggravating factor exists; and (2) the aggravating factor sufficiently outweighs any mitigating factor found to exist.

Directs the court to impose the death penalty upon a finding that such sentence is justified.

Establishes procedures for appeal from the death sentence.

What's happening now March 5, 1987

Referred to Subcommittee on Criminal Justice.

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