(Missourinet) – The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a death row inmate’s scheduled April execution will take place as scheduled.
Fifty-one-year-old Brian Dorsey is set to die by lethal injection on April 9. He was sentenced to death for murdering his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband in their home in central Missouri’s Callaway County. According to the ruling, Dorsey failed to demonstrate his innocence, and that his execution would be a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
The high court also stated that his claims of ineffective counsel assistance, due to an alleged financial conflict of interest, lacked merit. A group of more than sixty corrections officers sent a letter to Governor Parson, requesting clemency for Dorsey, citing his behavior as a model prisoner.
