60 officers ask Missouri governor not to execute death row barber

Brian Dorsey is convicted in the 2006 murders of his cousin and her husband
He is scheduled to die by lethal injection in April
Corrections officers asked Missouri governor to commute Dorsey’s sentence

Updated: Jan 17, 2024 / 05:34 PM CST

FILE – This July 7, 2010, file photo shows Nebraska’s lethal injection chamber at the State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb. In 2021, two people convicted of a grisly murder could be sentenced to death. But as the state adds to its death row population, it has no lethal injection drugs and very likely won’t get any for years, if ever. Those sentenced to death have a better chance of dying of natural causes than being executed. (AP Photo/Nate Jenkins, File)

(NewsNation) — Sixty corrections officers have asked Missouri’s governor not to execute an inmate on death row, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

The outlet says Brian Dorsey is scheduled to die by lethal injection in April, but officers are trying to get Gov. Mike Parson to commute his sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Dorsey has reportedly served as the barber for several officers for 17 years now.

“There isn’t a nicer guy than Brian. He is one of the most pleasant people we know. He doesn’t deserve to be executed. We know that he was convicted of murder, but that is not the Brian Dorsey that we know,” the 60 officers wrote in their letter. “We urge you, Governor, to exercise your authority under the Missouri Constitution to commute Brian’s sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.”

Dorsey is convicted in the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Ben, in New Bloomfield. He has reportedly been remorseful since the killings.

Find more St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporting on Dorsey at this link.