Topeka ? John E. Robinson Sr. will learn in January whether a judge agrees with 12 jurors that he should be executed for killing two women and stuffing their bodies in barrels.

Johnson County District Judge John Anderson III on Friday set Robinson’s sentencing for 9 a.m. Jan. 21. Anderson also is likely to rule on numerous defense motions, including requests for a new trial.

Robinson’s criminal history dates back to 1969 and includes stretches in Kansas and Missouri prisons. A report prepared in 1989 by the Kansas Department of Corrections said he had the propensity to commit more crimes by deception.

Jurors recommended on Nov. 2 that Robinson, 58, be put to death by lethal injection for the deaths of Suzette Trouten, 27, of Newport, Mich., and Izabela Lewicka, 21, a Polish immigrant and former Purdue University student. Their bodies were discovered on June 3, 2000, in 85-gallon yellow barrels on Robinson’s property in Linn County, about 60 miles south of Kansas City.

Anderson also will sentence Robinson for the 1985 murder of Lisa Stasi, 19, who was last seen with Robinson leaving a north Kansas City, Mo., home. That death occurred before Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994, leaving life in prison without parole as the maximum possible sentence.

Robinson would join brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr of Wichita at the El Dorado Correctional Facility as the latest individuals in Kansas to be sentenced to death.

Since the return of the death penalty in Kansas, four other men have been convicted of capital murder. However, their death sentences were vacated in December 2001 by the Kansas Supreme Court.