Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers
Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days.
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days.
Dorsey’s time of death was recorded as 6:11 p.m, the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a news release. The method of execution was lethal injection, Karen Pojmann, a spokesperson for the department, said at a news conference, adding it “went smoothly, no problems.”
The execution of Dorsey, 52, occurred hours after the US Supreme Court declined to intervene and about a day after Missouri’s Republican governor denied clemency, rejecting the inmate’s petition – backed by more than 70 correctional officers and others – for a commutation of his sentence to life in prison.
Dorsey and his attorneys cited his remorse, his rehabilitation while behind bars and his representation at trial by attorneys who allegedly had a “financial conflict of interest” as reasons he should not be put to death. But those arguments were insufficient to convince Gov. Mike Parson, who said in a statement carrying out Dorsey’s sentence “would deliver justice and provide closure.”
We need to abolish the death penalty in this country. This simply should not be a thing we do.
27The method of execution was lethal injection, Karen Pojmann, a spokesperson for the department, said at a news conference, adding it “went smoothly, no problems.”
We don't actually know that, because lethal injection (needlessly) includes a paralytic. His death could have been slow agony and there would be no way to know. Lethal injection is quite possibly the most brutal method of execution the US has ever employed. If I end up on death row I'll pray for the firing squad.
25it went smoothly, no problem
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I'm sure this bastard is a shit stain that deserves to be locked away for the rest of his life. Don't let the state murder people, though. No death penalties, it's a bad, bad idea that has been outlawed in civil nations. If the US ever wishes to become a civil nation, it needs to outlaw it too.
25is it really that much of a surprise that the most conservative and conservative christian states really love imposing the harshest old testament level punishments on as many people as possible?
forgiveness and rehabilitation? that sounds like something christ would do. fuck that, string him up on the old maple tree in the park so we can make an example out of him.
notice the same states proudly claiming to be pro life lead the nation in infant mortality, post birth mortality, and death sentences. it only shows that "pro life" only emphasizes the developing life, not any of it fully developed.
23https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Missouri
Spoiler, it's illegal
16Karen Pojmann, I hope someone finds you smooth and no problem in a dark alley.
3"Hey, now don't kill anyone, or else we'll kill you."
It really is a weird take. Also, our justice system routinely jails people who are innocent. This reason is why I oppose the death penalty in most cases.
1murica
-2ITT: Users who regularly advocate for actual physical violence and bloodshed over differences of opinion in the name of the "Paradox of Tolerance", suddenly clutching their pearls in defense of a literal murderer and rapist.
-11Good riddance, shithead. Maybe should have thought twice about committing double murder and then rape.
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