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

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Supreme Court won’t stop ********** of Missouri ****** row inmate Brian Dorsey

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

Dorsey is set to **** 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 ***********,

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Monday that the state would move forward with Dorsey’s ****** 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 *****-induced psychosis when he committed the killings in 2006.

Dorsey, 52, will be the first inmate in Missouri to be ********* this year after four were put to ****** in 2023. 

Dorsey pleaded guilty to ********* and ******** his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Ben Bonnie, at their home on Dec. 23, 2006. According to court filings, Dorsey had called his cousin for money to give to two ***** dealers who were at his apartment, and the three returned to the Bonnies’ home later that night after they agreed to help him.

After Sarah and Ben Bonnie, and their daughter, went to bed, Dorsey grabbed a shotgun and shot the couple, after which prosecutors accused Dorsey of ********* assaulting his cousin. He then stole several items from the Bonnies’ home, including jewelry and their car, and attempted to sell them to repay his ***** debt, state officials said.

The bodies were discovered after Sarah Bonnie’s parents went to the home after the couple was missing from a family gathering on Christmas Eve. When they went into the house, they found the couple’s 4-year-old daughter sitting on the couch, who told her grandparents her mother wouldn’t wake up.

Dorsey turned himself in to the police three days after the killings and confessed to the murders. He was then sentenced to ******.

After ******* appeals of his ****** sentence, the Missouri Supreme Court issued an ********** warrant in December. Dorsey sought further relief, arguing his conviction and sentence violated the Sixth Amendment, though his efforts were unsuccessful. 

In one request for the Supreme Court’s intervention, Dorsey’s attorneys argued that the lawyers appointed by the Missouri Public Defender Office to represent him were paid a flat fee of $12,000 apiece, which presented a conflict of interest that pitted their personal finance gains directly against Dorsey’s right to effective assistance of counsel.

Dorsey’s current attorneys told the Supreme Court in a

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that his appointed lawyers provided “grossly deficient representation” in a capital case and pressured their client to plead guilty with no agreement that prosecutors wouldn’t pursue the ****** penalty.

They argued in a

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that Dorsey has achieved “remarkable redemption and rehabilitation” in his more than 17 years on ****** row, and the “goals of capital punishment will not be furthered by” his **********.

Dorsey’s attorneys have also raised concerns about Missouri’s ********** protocol, which says nothing about the use of any pain relief. They describe their client in

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as obese, diabetic and a former user of intravenous drugs, all of which could make it difficult to establish IV lines for the lethal injection and may lead Missouri Department of Corrections employees to use “cut downs.”

Under the procedure, large incisions are made in the arms, legs or other areas of the body, and tissue is pulled away from the vein. A

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filed on Dorsey’s behalf in Missouri district court alleged that no anesthetic is given during “cut downs,” and the procedure occurs before an inmate meets with their spiritual adviser for the last time, which Dorsey plans to do.

His attorneys argued that the “significant pain and anguish ” Dorsey will be in when he meets his spiritual adviser hinders his ability to freely exercise his religion.

A settlement was reached Saturday, under which the state will take steps to limit the risk of extreme pain for Dorsey, according to the Associated Press.

Melissa Quinn

Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and Alexandria Times. Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts.

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