Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to United States assistance or support for the investigation on capital punishment in the United States by the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

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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.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 13 November 1997

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