Tagged: death penalty

The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to set execution dates for six condemned killers, saying doing so is "premature" until the courts decide if Missouri's new execution method passes constitutional muster.

The Missouri Department of Corrections will switch to propofol for all executions.

It’s is best known as the anesthetic that killed pop star Michael Jackson.

A House committee heard testimony Wednesday on legislation that would abolish the death penalty in Missouri.  As St. Louis Public Radio’s Marshall Griffin tells us, the bill would also commute sentences of all current Death Row inmates to “life without parole."

It may be easier to be sentenced to death in Missouri than in other states, according to a study released today.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• The state Supreme Court tosses out ethics rules passed by the legislature in 2010
• Derrick Washington pleads guilty to assault
• A trial judge throws out a lawsuit concerning the new congressional house districts
• Attorney General Chris Koster writes to the SCOTUS concerning the federal health care mandate

Democrat State Senator Joe Keaveny introduced Senate Bill 786 Monday, which would require state auditors to compare the cost of the death penalty with other sentences.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Legislation making Missouri a "right-to-work" state returns to the state Capitol.
• A proposed bill would abolish the death penalty in Missouri, but its detractors greatly outnumber its supporters.
• Republican hopefuls for Claire McCaskill's U.S. Senate seat will debate in a Branson high school auditorium tonight.