with police-union and association groups looking on...

with police-union and association groups looking on, the Senate passed 37-24, on a largely party-line vote, a death-penalty bill for cop-killers.
The bill sponsor is Sen. Martin Golden, R-Brooklyn. During the debate over the bill, Golden was referring to a recent spate of killings of police officers. Nine have died in the line of duty since November 2005, according to a state Senate count.
The state's death-penalty statute, renewed in 1995, was invalidated by the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, in 2004, because it found part of the sentencing provision could be coercive to juries. No one has been executed in the state since 1963.
Despite the Senate vote, it is not likely to come up for consideration in the Assembly, Speaker Sheldon Silver said Monday.
"I don't believe it's the sense of our conference that we want to do it," Spitzer said, referring to the 108-member Democrat majority in the 150-member house.