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~ Brian Dorsey, 09Apr24, (MO) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: April 4, 2024, 4:02 pm
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Missouri man petitions U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution
next week--
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man facing execution next Tuesday has filed
an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing his trial
attorneys provided “grossly deficient representation in a
capital case.”
Brian Dorsey, 52, was convicted in the 2006 killing of his
cousin Sarah Bonnie and her husband Ben Bonnie in central
Missouri.
A death warrant goes into effect at 6 p.m. on April 9.
Dorsey was appointed two trial attorneys through the Missouri
State Public Defender, who were each paid a flat fee of $12,000.
That payment structure, his current attorneys argue, pits the
lawyers’ interest in doing no more than what is minimally
necessary to qualify for the payment with the client’s best
interests.
According to the petition filed Tuesday, the two attorneys
pressured Dorsey into pleading guilty while the death penalty
remained on the table.
They also did not undertake an investigation and were “so
lacking that they did not take the time to talk to Mr. Dorsey
about the night of the crime,” the petition said.
Dorsey’s current legal team has argued that he was “statutorily
innocent” of first-degree murder because he was in a state of
drug psychosis when he killed the Bonnies.
“If Mr. Dorsey’s counsel had done the bare minimum investigation
required of capital defense attorneys, they would have quickly
learned that Mr. Dorsey did not possess the requisite intent for
first-degree murder,” the petition said.
The flat fee payment structure is no longer used in capital
cases by the state’s public defender system. Its use is a
violation of American Bar Association guidelines in death
penalty cases.
Dorsey’s legal team has previously filed motions arguing the
state’s lethal injection protocol was “tortuous” and that the
head of the Missouri Department of Corrections is unqualified to
oversee an execution.
Arguments in that case were heard Monday in Cole County Circuit
Court.
Ben Clark, an attorney for Dorsey, told Judge Matthew Hamner
that acting DOC director Trevor Foley had been appointed by
Parson in December. But permanent directors, whose duties
include overseeing executions, must be confirmed by the Missouri
Senate.
Gregory Goodwin, an attorney for the state, said acting
directors need to be able to carry out their responsibilities.
Limiting their functions, he said, could call into question all
of their duties and could cause the government to grind to a
halt.
Hamner’s decision on an injunction was expected later Tuesday.
Over 150 people have signed onto a clemency application asking
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to grant Dorsey life without parole.
Signatories included five jurors, over 70 corrections staff,
three Republican state representatives and a former Missouri
Supreme Court judge who in 2009 upheld Dorsey’s death sentence.
Several members of Dorsey’s family, including some who were
related to Sarah Bonnie, oppose going through with the
execution. Others said they asked Parson to deny clemency to
Dorsey “for his heinous crimes that will let the justice for
Sarah and Ben be carried out.”
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Re: ~ Brian Dorsey, 09Apr24, (MO) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: April 9, 2024, 6:38 pm
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Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for double homicide committed in
2006--
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
BONNE TERRE, Mo. — A Missouri man was executed on Tuesday for
the double murder of his cousin and her husband more than 17
years ago.
Brian Dorsey, 52, was put to death by lethal injection from a
single dose of the sedative pentobarbital at Potosi Correctional
Center in Bonne Terre, KTVI reported. He is the first inmate to
be executed in the state this year, CBS News reported. Four
people were executed in Missouri in 2023.
Dorsey was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. CDT, Missouri correction
officials said in a statement. Earlier, Dorsey expressed his
regret in a final statement.
“I am truly, deeply, overwhelmingly sorry,” Dorsey wrote in his
final statement. “Words cannot hold the just weight of my guilt
and shame.”
He was convicted for the Dec. 23, 2006 murders of his cousin,
Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Ben Bonnie, The Washington Post
reported. The couple had taken Dorsey in at their home near New
Bloomfield because a pair of drug dealers were threatening him
as they attempted to collect a debt, according to a news release
from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
Prosecutors said that Dorsey killed the couple with a shotgun
after they went to bed, KSDK-TV reported. He allegedly sexually
assaulted Sarah Bonnie’s body, according to the television
station.
Dorsey left the home, leaving the couple’s 4-year-old daughter
alone in the residence, The Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors said Dorsey took a cellphone, jewelry, two firearms
and a copy of “Bambi II” belonging to the victims’ daughter,
according to the Post. Prosecutors said Dorsey took the items to
repay his drug debt, according to court records.
Dorsey went to the Bonnies’ home that night. After they went to
bed, Dorsey took a shotgun from the garage and killed both of
them before sexually assaulting Sarah Bonnie’s body, prosecutors
said.
The execution came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined
to stop the sentence from being carried out, the Post reported.
In a statement on Monday, Parson denied clemency for Dorsey, the
news outlet reported.
“Brian Dorsey punished his loving family for helping him in a
time of need. His cousins invited him into their home where he
was surrounded by family and friends, then gave him a place to
stay. Dorsey repaid them with cruelty, inhumane violence, and
murder,” Parson said. “The pain Dorsey brought to others can
never be rectified, but carrying out Dorsey’s sentence according
to Missouri law and the Court’s order will deliver justice and
provide closure.”
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