"Missouri Executes Brian Dorsey Despite Clemency Calls and Groundswell of Support"

Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey was executed 18 years after killing his cousin and her husband, expressing deep remorse and apologizing to his family before his death. Dorsey, who had been denied two appeals by the US Supreme Court, received a single-dose injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. He had viciously murdered his family members and assaulted his cousin, leaving their daughter orphaned just days before Christmas in 2006. Despite his apology, his clemency request was denied, and he was executed.