MEASURE PROPOSED FOR MANDATORY DEATH SENTENCE FOR COP KILLERS

A state senator says he’ll introduce a measure that would give a mandatory death sentence to any adult convicted of murdering a police officer.  Republican Mike Regan, who serves York and Cumberland Counties, said Tuesday that his proposal would eliminate the option for life in prison for cop killers.  The idea follows the death of Officer Christopher Fitzgerald, who was shot to death by a robbery suspect while on patrol with Temple University’s Police Department.