the Assembly's Public Safety committee approved a bill that would impose a 2-year moratorium on death sentences in California

the Assembly's Public Safety committee approved a bill that would impose a 2-year moratorium on death sentences in California, allowing time for a state commission on executions to complete its review of the system.
The proposal from Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, comes after the execution last month of Stanley Tookie Williams, that prompted protests.
The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, created last year by the state Senate, is studying the state's death penalty system to determine whether any inmates have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes.
The commission is scheduled to conclude its work at the end of 2007.
The bill, AB1121, advanced on a 4-2 vote and goes to the Appropriations Committee.
A member of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration attended the hearing and said the governor objects to the bill. Any such bill passed this year would require the governor's signature to become law.