ST. LOUISST. LOUIS — Missouri’s execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work, lawyers for a death ...

The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a stay of execution bid for a death row inmate condemned to die next week – despite his lawyer’s warnings that he faces state-sanctioned surgery without anesthesia.

Attorneys for Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey have several appeals pending in a last-ditch bid to spare him from execution. Dorsey's legal counsel cites state execution protocol, which allows ...