Lawmakers love to take things to the brink of legislative death and then revive them.
If popular, his party's legislative death cult may have to be extended to cover, say, people jailed for attempted suicide, for blasphemy and for witchcraft.
But supporters of the Freedom Act are warning that the intelligence agencies and their congressional allies will find the reform bill's legislative death to be a cold comfort.
Another result of the pardons was a series of legislative death penalty reforms that Ryan's successor Rod Blagojevich vetoed.
Because even though legislative death and destruction were in the air, when the collision happened it was almost impossible to tear our eyes away from it.
This is going to be tragic for millions of people, but Democrats likely won't have the votes to pass anything (especially anything which smacks of "spending" to the Republicans), so the issue will likely die a quiet legislative death.
A few months after Manchin unveiled his take on legislative-death-by-firing-squad, a gunman in Tucson killed six people and wounded thirteen others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
A legislative study of deaths among residents of group homes run by the State Department of Mental Retardation concludes that some died needlessly as a result of either staff error or neglect.
But defense lawyers argued that because the original law that reinstated the death penalty in the state in 1995 had been rendered unconstitutional, absent legislative amendments, any death sentence stemming from it was also unconstitutional.
A legislative right to death, if sanctioned by the state, doesn't just mean freedom to kill yourself, it imposes a duty on the state to provides the means to do so, she says.
