OPPOSITION TO BILL
Poll On Death Penalty
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) SACRAMENTO (California), March 4. Governor Edmund Brown’s plan to ban the death penalty in California was doomed, according to a poll of the 138-member Legislature made by United Press International. The poll showed that 45 of the 78 members of the State Assembly were against abolition of the death penalty this year, and two-thirds of the 40-member Senate agreed. The members indicated that the case of the Los Angeles “red light bandit,’’ Caryl Chessman, created heavier opposition to banning the death penalty than was shown last year when both Houses voted it down. Mr Brown's bill to abolish capital punishment and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole was introduced yesterday in the Senate. The measure was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee for a public hearing, which will be held next Wednesday. The committee chairman, Senator Edwin Regan (Democrat) said he would try to eliminate all mention of Chessman during the hearing. Chessman, convicted nearly iz years ago on kidnapping and sex charges, is scheduled to die in the San Quentin gaol gas chamber on May 2—his ninth execution date.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29146, 5 March 1960, Page 13
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