Missouri went through with its first execution of the year, as Brian Dorsey was put to death last night, just after 6 PM local time. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stop Brian Dorsey’s execution. He was convicted of murdering his cousin Sarah Bonnie and her husband Ben Bonnie nearly 20 years ago. The advocacy group Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty launched several recent campaigns on Dorsey’s behalf, to spare his life. Jenni Gerhauser, who is a cousin to both Dorsey and Sarah Bonnie, expressed belief in his redemption.
Gerhauser fondly remembered him as fun and charming from their visits during holidays. Dorsey’s current lawyers said he was in a drug-induced psychosis when he killed the Bonnies in 2006, and that his attorneys at the time had been offered money that prevented them from fighting the death penalty with his guilty plea deal.
Dorsey received a lethal injection Tuesday evening. Lethal injection became an option for people on Missouri’s death row in 1987, alongside lethal gas.
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