Missouri executed Brian Dorsey despite pleas from 70+ correctional officers, a judge who upheld the death sentence on appeal, several jurors, and some victim family members to spare his life huffpost.com/entry/missouri…

SCOTUS denied both petitions with no explanation of their reasoning x.com/chrisgeidner/s…

statement from Jenni Gerhauser, cousin of Brian Dorsey and Sarah Bonnie:

“The death penalty isn’t punishment for the convicted. This evening, Brian will be set free. His punishment will end, and for all of us only guilty of loving him, ours will begin.'

Brian Dorsey's final statement x.com/katie_reports/…

Jessica Schulberg That's been debunked:

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this is incredibly disappointing and a journalistic mistake — incarcerated journalists are experts on the criminal legal system and uniquely positioned to uncover wrongdoing in prisons/jails/the courts

Despite support from 70+ correctional officers, a former judge who upheld Dorsey's death sentence, five jurors, and some victim family members, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) denied Brian Dorsey's clemency request

Missouri Executes Man Despite Pleas From Judge And Jurors To Spare His Life. huffpost.com/entry/missouri… HuffPost Jessica Schulberg Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty #BrianDorsey #deathpenalty

the other argued that it would be unconstitutional to execute someone who had been fully rehabilitated drive.google.com/file/d/1ObL8xb…

Brian Dorsey is scheduled to be executed tonight at 6pm CT with an injection of pentobarbital. Autopsies of people killed this way show signs of pulmonary edema, which can create the feeling of suffocating or drowning to death npr.org/2020/09/21/793…

Jessica Schulberg Then I guess he'll behave very well while they plunge the needles.

one of the stories I'm most proud of is one that i co-bylined with ChristopherBlackwell, an award-winning investigative reporter, personal essayist and journalism mentor who is incarcerated in WA huffpost.com/entry/medical-…

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ChristopherBlackwell last year, HuffPost published ChristopherBlackwell and Nina Zweig's deeply reported investigation into the failure of New Jersey's solitary confinement reform — it's filled with reporting that a journalist on the outside simply would not get huffpost.com/entry/new-jers…

ChristopherBlackwell HuffPost Nina Zweig prisons and jails are constantly implementing rules to block or restrict incarcerated people from participating in public life. journalists should be the loudest voices fighting against this, not contributing additional barriers huffpost.com/entry/new-york…

Dorsey also asked SCOTUS in two separate petitions to block his execution. One argued that his trial lawyers, who were paid a flat $12k fee and advised him to plead guilty w/no deal to remove the death penalty, were working under a conflict of interest drive.google.com/file/d/1vbkbcz…

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Jessica Schulberg And the daughter of the murdered wants the execution...she is the one I care about today...she had to grow up without parents...and that continues for the rest of HER life.

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