In October, State Senators Allen Kukovich, a Westmoreland...

In October, State Senators Allen Kukovich, a Westmoreland County Democrat, and Edward Helfrick, a Northumberland County Republican, proposed a stay of all scheduled executions in Pennsylvania and a commission appointed by the state Supreme Court to study capital punishment and recommend changes in the state/s death penalty laws.Bills to restrict the death penalty to those who were at least 18 at the time of their crime and to eliminate the death penalty for the mentally retarded were introduced but did not pass.