The law that generates much of the judges' ire is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
Subsequently, Clinton's Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enabled a drastic escalation in the use of the death penalty.
A 1996 federal law, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, imposes strict limits on successive federal habeas corpus petitions.
Here, the change is the effective death of a culture through the twin evils of oppression and neglect.
In the Anti terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which restricted many aspects of habeas corpus, Congress made the "abuse of the writ" obstacle even higher.
When Congress and President Clinton enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in 1996, they largely silenced the federal courts and put an end to the dialogue.
Convicted under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Hammonds were subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of five years.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, enacted in 1996, made it a crime to provide "material support" to terrorist organizations.
This bill eventually morphed into the broader Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which President Clinton signed shortly after the first anniversary of the bombing.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, passed in 1996, makes it a crime to provide "material support" to any group designated as "terrorist" -- without regard to whether the support was actually intended to further terrorist activity.
One Government Accounting Office study cited by Congress in floor debates on the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, put the figure as high as 77percentt.
