US Supreme Court won’t halt execution of Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder amid mercy bid backed by 70 corrections officers
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The US Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution set for Tuesday evening of Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey, who has professed deep remorse for the 2006 murders of his cousin and her husband while earning support from more than 70 correctional officers who backed sparing his life.
The US Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution set for Tuesday evening of Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey, who has professed deep remorse for the 2006 murders of his cousin and her husband while earning support from more than 70 correctional officers who backed sparing his life. The state’s Republican governor this week denied clemency in a significant blow to Dorsey, 52, who had petitioned for a commutation of his sentence to life in prison, citing his remorse, his rehabilitation while behind bars and his representation at trial by attorneys who allegedly had a “financial conflict of interest.” Dorsey’s petition also cited the support of some family members who his attorneys said were also related to the victims. But other members of the victims’ families support the execution, telling CNN in a statement Dorsey committed the “ultimate betrayal” when he killed his cousin Sarah Bonnie and her husband, Benjamin, leaving their daughter Jade, then 4 years old, in the home with her parents’ bodies locked in their bedroom. “Not only did Jade lose her parents but we also lost a daughter and son, sister and brother, aunt and uncle, and a great aunt and great uncle to so many,” the statement from Sarah Bonnie’s family reads, in part. “They were loved so deeply by anyone that knew them,” it said. “All of these years of pain and suffering we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Brian will get the justice that Sarah and Ben have deserved for so long.”
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