United States: sentenced to death for double homicide in 2006 is executed in Missouri

An American sentenced to death for the murder of his cousin and her husband in 2006 was executed this Tuesday in Missouriin the center of U.Sdespite several requests to commute his sentence.

Brian Dorseyaged 52, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:11 pm local time (11:11 pm GMT) for the murders of Sara Bonnie25 years old, and her husband BenBonnie28, in New Bloomfield, Missouri.

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Dorsey pleaded guilty to shooting the couple with a shotgun after they took him in for a night to protect him from drug dealers trying to collect a debt.

The Bonnies’ four-year-old daughter, who was home at the time of the murders, was unharmed.

In a petition to the Supreme Court requesting a stay of execution, Dorsey’s lawyers stated that his is “the rare case in which a person facing imminent execution is unquestionably fully rehabilitated”.

“Brian Dorsey committed the crime during a drug-induced psychosis“they said. “During Mr. Dorsey’s many years on death row, removed from the circumstances that led to this psychosis, he was rehabilitated”.

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This is the first execution since the beginning of the year in Missouri and the fifth in the country, in addition to the one canceled at the last moment, on February 28, in Idaho (northwest) after a medical team was unable to insert an intravenous line.

Capital punishment has been abolished in 23 states. U.Swhile the governors of another six (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania It is Tennessee) suspended its application.

There have been 24 executions carried out in the United States in 2023, all of them carried out by lethal injection.

Source: Elcomercio

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