Short Name: Federal Death Penalty and Native Americans
Year Adopted: 1991
Meeting Where Adopted: Annual
Policy Number: 1991 AM 117B
Subjects: Death Penalty, Native American Rights
Resolution Text:
BE IT RESOLVED, THAT the American Bar Association, without taking a position on the enactment of general federal death penalty legislation, supports in principle legislative measures which would prevent or minimize any disproportionate effects of general federal death penalty legislation on Native Americans subject to federal jurisdiction.
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