Supreme Court won't stop execution of Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to halt the execution of Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey, who was convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband nearly 20 years ago.

Dorsey is set to die by lethal injection on Tuesday night after the high court rejected two separate bids to intervene. There were no noted dissents. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, confirmed Monday that the state would move forward with Dorsey's death sentence, rejecting a separate request for clemency.

More than 70 current and former corrections officers had urged Parson to commute Dorsey's sentence, arguing he had been rehabilitated, and his lawyers said that Dorsey was in a drug-induced psychosis when he committed the killings in 2006.