"Petition Urges Missouri Governor to Pardon Death Row Inmate Brian Dorsey"

More than 150 people, including prison workers, state representatives, and a retired judge, are urging Missouri Governor Mike Parson to commute the death sentence of Brian Dorsey, who is scheduled for execution on April 9 for the 2006 killings of his cousin and her husband. Supporters argue that Dorsey's defense was compromised, and that he was in a drug-induced psychosis at the time of the killings. Despite the attorney general's statement about aggravating factors, many believe that executing Dorsey would be a pointless cruelty and a dishonor to the justice system.