In the last two dozen years - since capital punishment resumed in 1989 - Missouri has executed 67 men.
And 46 others currently are on Death Row, waiting for their court-ordered executions.
State Sen. Joe Keaveny, D-St. Louis, thinks the state should determine if it's cheaper to eliminate the death penalty.
He wants to have a state auditor's review of the state's costs, for having and implementing a death penalty, and explained his idea to the Senate's Governmental Accountability Committee last week.
"This is a bill that's going to look at the cost of the death penalty in Missouri, versus life without parole," Keaveny, D-St. Louis, said. "It's very expensive to administer the death penalty."