Melvin Watt: “Mr. Chairman, I want to make sure the gentleman is clear. This is not about whether we support the death penalty or not.…”

“Mr. Chairman, I want to make sure the gentleman is clear. This is not about whether we support the death penalty or not. There is nothing in this that deals with the death penalty. It is not about the length of appeals. It is about how you get your foot in the door to raise an issue, whether if you have credible evidence that you did not commit the crime, credible evidence of innocence, that you can go through the same process that you go through that you set up in the bill.”