(Special to the J.D.B.)
Benjamin Mailow of Brooklyn, seventeen-yea-old murderer will not die on the electric chair March 1. Governor Lehman today commuted the Brownsville youth’s sentence to life imprisonment.
“At the time of the commission on the crime, Mallow, according to this birth certificate, was sixteen years old and at the present time is little more than sventeen years old.” Said the Governor. “Because of this and several other circumstances, I commute the sentence of Benjamin Mallow to that of life imprisonment.”
Governor Lshman had been widely urged to commute the boy’s execution which was scheduled to take place on Purim. Assemblyman Schanzer was to have introduced a bloii tonight which wouldmake it legally impossible to execute those under twenty-one years of age.
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