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Past Issues of FDPRC Newsletter
January 1993 - January 1999

 

January 1993

The Pace of Federal Death Prosecutions Increases
Attempt to Refurbish Pre-Furman Statute
In Congress

DOJ Promulgates Death Regulations

Current Legal Issues in Federal Capital Litigation: What's Hot

 

January 1994

DOJ Questioned About Racial Disparities in Federal Capital Charging
Jury Imposes Triple Death Sentence in Virginia
Death Notice Withdrawn Against Mentally Retarded "Kingpin"
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Refurbish Pre-Furman Statute
DOJ Promulgates Lethal Injection Regulations
Federal Jury Imposes Death Sentence on Low Ranking Co-Conspirator in Oklahoma: More Culpable Defendants Get Life Imprisonment
Eleventh Circuit Panel Upholds First Federal Death Sentence
Death Imposed on Federal Defendant in Texas
In Congress
Pending Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions

 

January 1995

The 1994 Crime Bill: Nationalizing the Death Penalty
Differences Between Crime Bill and Drug Kingpin Procedures
Appointment of Counsel: "Learned in the Law Applicable to Capital Cases"
Prosecutorial Discretion/DOJ Authorization
More Questions on Race and the Federal Death Penalty
Supreme Court Denies Review of First Federal Death Case
The Federal Death Row
Anti-Drug Abuse Act Developments: No Growth on the Federal Row
Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions, 1988-94
Indian Tribal Opt-In Choices: Facilitating Informed Consent
Federal Defenders Prepare for Death Penalty Cases

 

December 1995

DOJ Announces Death Penalty Authorization Regulations
Government Brings First "Crime Bill" Death Penalty CasesDOJ Announces Death Penalty Authorization Regulations 
Government Brings First "Crime Bill"  Death Penalty Cases
Fifth Circuit Affirms Death Sentence
Bureau of Prisons Seeks After-The-Fact The Congressional Approval for Federal Death Row
Out-of-Districts\State Lawyers and CJA Panel Reps Appointed in Federal Capital Cases
Further Expansion of the Federal Death Penalty?
FDPRC Project Attempts to Track Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions
Federal Death Penalty Data Form

 

January 1998

Racial Justice and the Federal Death Penalty
New Resource Counsel
Hot Issues: Federal Capital Sentencing Instructions
The Authorization Process
Money Matters
Pervasiveness of "Future Dangerousness" Aggravator
The Government's Mental Health Expert of Choice
Early Discovery Provided in Death Penalty Cases