During an exchange with a fellow Democrat, Sen. Joseph Keaveny of St. Louis City, she spoke about how the population shifts out of the city have impacted the county districts. Keaveny was in favor of expanding charter schools, saying that it's important to keep people in the city by offering more options.
Sen. Joseph Keaveny, D-St. Louis City, the bill sponsor, said that a Kansas study looked at seven cases that had a death penalty sentencing and seven cases with a life sentence without parole. Keaveny said the Kansas study showed that the seven death penalty cases cost the state $10.6 million from beginning to end and the life without parole sentences cost the state $6.3 million. A number of states such as North Carolina, California, New Jersey and New Mexico have conducted similar stu..
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