An amendment to add several additional crimes to the bill's list of crimes subject to the death penalty and broadens the bill's definition of other capital crimes. The amendment changes the bill's procedures for imposing the federal death penalty to allow a sentence of death if the capital crime was committed with a reckless disregard for human life, to remove the requirement that the jury be told that it does not have to impose the death penalty if the defendant is found guilty of a capital crime, and to permit the prosecution to announce its intention to seek the death penalty any time before sentencing, if "good cause" is shown. The amendment also makes the appointment of counsel discretionary in habeas appeals of state capital cases, requires that prisoners under death sentences must file federal habeas corpus petitions within 90 days after they have exhausted their state appeals, and permits federal courts to accept habeas petitions only if they question the validity of the conviction itself, not the sentence.