Missouri Gov. rejects prison guards’ calls to stop execution of Brian Dorsey
Missouri Gov. rejects prison guards’ calls to stop execution of Brian Dorsey
thehill.com Missouri Gov. rejects prison guards’ calls to stop execution of Brian Dorsey
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) denied clemency to Brian Dorsey, who faces execution on Tuesday for the 2006 murder of his cousin and her husband. “Brian Dorsey punished his loving family for helping…
The petition gathered over 150 signatories to letters urging Parson to commute Dorsey’s sentence to life without parole. According to The Kansas City Star, supporters included 72 corrections employees, five jurors, three Republican state representatives and former Missouri Supreme Court justice Michael Wolff, who originally upheld Dorsey’s death sentence in 2009.
The execution is scheduled to take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday and will be carried out by lethal injection
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