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Show BENNETT CO-SPONSORS DEATH PENALTY BILL Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah, R-Utah, said today he will co-sponsor co-sponsor a bill in the Senate to restore the death penalty for certain federal crimes. The Utahn said the legislation, legisla-tion, which is part of the massive mas-sive criminal code reform act requested by the Administration, is being introduced seperately "to allow Congress to act upon the death penalty as an independent inde-pendent issue." He said it is hoped that the legislatio.n will be enacted before be-fore final action on the massive mas-sive job of rewriting the present federal criminal code. Sen. Bennett said the bill was recommended in President Nixon's Nix-on's crime message last month. It recommends a new death penalty for war-related treason, sabotage and espionage, and any federal crime- in which a death results. A jury would be impaneled after a finding of guilty to determine de-termine specific aggravatng or mitigating circumstances in deciding de-ciding whether the death penal, ty should be imposed. |
