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S 1955 101th Congress Senate Crime and Law Enforcement Capital punishment Homicide Law enforcement officers Murder Narcotic traffic Sentences (Criminal procedure)

A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide the death penalty for engaging in a continuing criminal drug enterprise involving a large quantity of drugs.

Introduced: November 21, 1989 See on congress.gov
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Nov 21, 1989
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Nov 21, 1989
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow the imposition of the death penalty, when the crime does not involve killing, upon individuals found to be principal organizers of a continuing criminal enterprise involving the manufacture or distribution of large quantities of illicit drugs or if the criminal enterprise receives $10,000,000 from illicit drug operations. (Current law provides for mandatory life imprisonment.) Changes minimum sentences for crimes involving the killing of law enforcement officers. Amends procedures, guidelines, and aggravating and mitigating factors relating to the imposition of the death penalty.

What's happening now November 21, 1989

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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