2024-04-11 00:06:50
Brian Dorsey, an American sentenced to death for the 2006 murder of his cousin and her husband, was executed in Missouri, in the central United States, despite multiple requests to commute his sentence.
The execution, the first of 2024 in this state, was carried out after the Supreme Court hours earlier dismissed two appeals presented by Dorsey and Governor Mike Parson denied him clemency on Monday.
The inmate had already asked Parson to have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, citing his remorse and his rehabilitation behind bars. At least 72 former and current officials at the Potosi Correctional Center, where Dorsey was held, asked the governor for clemency for the convicted man. for his good behavior in prison.
«There is no nicer person than Brian. He doesn’t deserve to be executed. “We know he was convicted of murder, but that is not the Brian Dorsey we know,” they wrote in the petition.
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In a final statement written before he was executed, Dorsey thanked those who defended him and apologized to the families of his victims, Sarah and Benjamin Bonnie. «I am grateful for you. I have peace in my heart largely thanks to you and I thank you. To all those on all sides of this prayer, I carry no ill will or anger, only acceptance and understanding.”
Dorsey, 51, was the first death row inmate executed in Missouri this year.
He was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. local time at Bonne Terre State Prison after a single-dose injection of the sedative pentobarbital.
The man pleaded guilty to shooting the couple with a shotgun after they took him in for a night to protect him from drug dealers who were trying to collect a debt.
The Bonnies’ four-year-old daughter, who was in the home at the time of the murders, was unharmed.
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