Tagged: execution

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Schoeller discusses Speaker succession
• Mo. Supreme Court declines to set execution dates
• Missouri Republicans rally to start fall campaigns

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.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• A wrap of of the legislators' final actions of the 2012 Missouri legislative session
• Attorney General Chris Koster puts pressure on the MO Supreme Court to schedule executions

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.