From the article, emphasis mine:
Dorsey, 52, was convicted and placed on death row in 2008 after pleading guilty […]
The governor’s decision to proceed with Dorsey’s injection comes after his legal team filed a clemency application, stressing Dorsey’s “extraordinary rehabilitation” behind bars, his apparent mental state on the night of the murders as well as inadequate legal representation at trial
Sounds like there must have been inadequate legal representation – how does one plead guilty and still wind up with the death penalty? What the hell was the plea deal?
how does one plead guilty and still wind up with the death penalty?
Having court appointed attorneys in a shithole state that pays them a flat fee for each case they take, incentivizing them to just get it over with as quickly as possible
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/04/03/execution-missouri-brian-dorsey-fees
Murdering the murderer fixes nothing. Rehabilitation actually worked and the governor spat in it’s face.
I knew a murder victim, I can’t imagine the pain of their killer being free cause he was a good boy. Rehabilitation is great, but you can be a good prisoner and be productive in there. You made the choice to take a life, not just the person you killed but their entire family you devastated. Those victims are punished and victimized over and over when the killer gets to be free and happy, but their relative is in the ground.
Rehab and release is an excellent thing but not for killers. Give him life, don’t execute him. But rehabilitation shouldn’t mean release
remorse is real and forgiveness is real.
if you are reformed, i see no reason why you shouldn’t be free. its that way in other countries and it works.
yeah, he took something away from someone that can never be given back. he fucked up. he took his horrible mistake and tried to make something positive of it. this isnt black and white. good people can do bad things.
I’m not a religious person, but I am pretty sure that god / jesus / allah / fsm would welcome this person if they were to exist.
edit: clarity of statement / typo
No one argues for setting him free.
Quite a few people who replied to me do
Then just kill them. You are just asking for a slow painful stretched out death sentence
Except life in prison gives us chances to overturn their conviction if new evidence comes to light showing their innocence
The whole thing’s barbaric.
This is the same guy who will likely get a surgical procedure with no anaesthetic as part of being killed.
Red State Governors are asshole shitheads. This is par for the course.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mike Parson ® denied clemency to Brian Dorsey, who faces execution on Tuesday for the 2006 murder of his cousin and her husband.
The governor’s decision to proceed with Dorsey’s injection comes after his legal team filed a clemency application, stressing Dorsey’s “extraordinary rehabilitation” behind bars, his apparent mental state on the night of the murders as well as inadequate legal representation at trial, according to reports from CNN.
The petition gathered over 150 signatories to letters urging Parson to commute Dorsey’s sentence to life without parole.
According to The Kansas City Star, supporters included 72 corrections employees, five jurors, three Republican state representatives and former Missouri Supreme Court justice Michael Wolff, who originally upheld Dorsey’s death sentence in 2009.
“Governor Parson has chosen to ignore the wealth of information before him showing that Brian Dorsey is uniquely deserving of mercy,” she said in a statement, reported by the Associated Press.
“Brian has spent every day of his time in prison trying to make amends for his crime, and dozens of correctional officers have attested to his remorse, transformation, and commitment to service.
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Gotta love a guy shitting on the corrections system actually working for once (at least, if the article is to be believed).
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