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Spitzer pressed on death penalty for cop killers
By Gannett News Service
Published: 04/25/2007

ALBANY, NY - Just hours after a state trooper was shot dead in the Catskills, Republicans today called on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to lean on his fellow Democrats in the state Legislature to reinstate the death penalty for cop killers.

Spitzer, in fact, cut short a tour of the state designed to criticize Republicans on campaign-finance issues and instead returned to the Capitol in the wake of a fatal shooting of a trooper in Delaware County by a man suspected of shooting two other troopers. At brief news conference late this afternoon, he said "Now is not the moment'' for policy debates. Read more.

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