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MODEL DEATH SQUAD PROHIBITION LEGISLATION

A Bill

For An Act To Be Entitled

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT AND ESTABLISH CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR THE FORMATION AND OPERATION OF A DEATH SQUAD OR TORTURE SQUAD; TO REQUIRE THE STATE POLICE ESTABLISH A DEATH SQUAD MONITORING TASK FORCE; TO REQUIRE ALL AGENTS OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, FOREIGN MILITARY OR POLICE PERSONNEL AND UNITS OPERATING IN THE STATE TO REGISTER WITH THE STATE POLICE DEATH SQUAD MONITORING TASK FORCE, WHO SHALL HAVE AUTHORITY TO PLACE MONITORS WITH ANY SUCH FOREIGN INDIVIDUAL OR UNIT; TO ESTABLISH CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR ANY FOREIGN NATIONAL OR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ENTERING THE STATE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PARTICIPATING IN THE OPERATION OR SUPPORT OF A DEATH SQUAD OR THE EXTRAJUDICIAL KIDNAPING, DETAINMENT, TORTURE, INTIMIDATION OR EXECUTION OF ANY CITIZEN OR RESIDENT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Subtitle

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE CREATION AND OPERATION OF DEATH SQUADS AND TORTURE SQUADS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF (name of State):

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.

(A) “Death squad” shall mean:

(1) A person or group of persons falsely impersonating law enforcement or military personnel or operating under color of authority as armed military, law enforcement, or other government authority for the purpose of extrajudicial execution, assassination, kidnaping,  forced disappearance, or torture conducted in a manner to conceal their identities and conceal criminal acts they commit;

(2) A person or group of persons operating as vigilantes to conduct extrajudicial execution, assassination, kidnaping, forced disappearance, or torture conducted in a manner to conceal their identities and conceal criminal acts they commit; or

(3) A person or persons participating in a gang or organized criminal enterprise who execute, assassinate, kidnap, disappear, or torture nonmembers in a manner to conceal their identities and conceal criminal acts they commit.

(B) “Extrajudicial” shall mean actions taken without legal foundation, without judicial authorization and procedures in the form of proper appropriate valid warrants, without arrest warrants specifying criminal offenses, without filing of criminal charges within the specified time limits, without informing the person of the charges against them, denial of access to legal counsel, and the denial of human rights, legal rights and access to proper medical treatment for illness or injury. More