US Supreme Court Won’t Halt Execution of Missouri Death Row Inmate Brian Dorsey

Published on April 9, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in the execution of a Missouri death row inmate for double homicide more than 15 years ago. Brian Dorsey is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday evening after the high court declined to take up two appeals he filed. There were no Supreme Court justice dissents that were made public. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson confirmed on Monday that the state would move ahead with his death sentence and rejected a request for clemency. His office said that his execution is the “appropriate and legal sentence for his heinous crimes.” The inmate was convicted in the 2006 slayings of his cousin and her husband, Sarah Bonnie and Ben Bonnie, in Callaway County while their 4-year-old daughter was in the home....

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