I talked to Brian Dorsey's spiritual adviser Matt Frierdich the day before, day of and day after the execution.
“This is the thing I told him over & over as he died, is that ‘We love you Brian & God loves you’ and hopefully that’s the last thing he heard.'
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Once public spectacles, executions have become highly secretive affairs. Especially in Missouri.

Witnesses on Tuesday watched Brian Dorsey die by lethal injection. But witnesses in many other states are allowed to view more of the process.

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The state of Missouri on Tuesday night carried out the execution of Brian Dorsey, a 52-year-old man convicted in a double murder.

Dorsey was administered a lethal dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m​.

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Breaking: SCOTUS will not stop the scheduled execution of Brian Dorsey by Missouri today. There were no noted dissents.

#Eclipse2024 over #KansasCity

NEW: Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has denied clemency to Brian Dorsey, whose execution is scheduled for tomorrow. It will proceed unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in.

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A Missouri man has filed a second request with the U.S. Supreme Court, saying his execution Tuesday violates his constitutional rights because he has undergone “remarkable redemption.”

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Family members of prisoners gathered in prayer across the street from the federal facility in Leavenworth, which has been on lockdown for over a month.

“It’s time for people to know the truth of what goes on behind that razor wire,” one woman said.

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A man facing execution next Tuesday has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing his trial attorneys provided “grossly deficient representation in a capital case.”

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NEW: The owner of a Kansas newspaper outlines a litany of violations in a 100-plus page federal lawsuit ​claiming a police raid at the newsroom last August was an “intolerable violation of their constitutional rights.”

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A third lawsuit has been filed by an employee of the newspaper in Marion, Kansas, which was raided by police in August.

Office manager Cheri Bentz filed the federal lawsuit, claiming she was unlawfully detained and interrogated, and had her phone seized.

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New: A Kansas City-area elected official facing felony charges has resigned as questions swirl around a little-known municipality in Jackson County. kansascity.com/news/politics-…

Prisoners and their families report inhumane conditions at the federal prison in Leavenworth, which has been on lockdown for weeks. The water has been on & off. Showers are limited. Meals are small. And people are reportedly being told to defecate in bags.
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Five jurors, over 70 corrections staff and three Republican state representatives have signed onto a request asking Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to grant clemency to Brian Dorsey.

The state will execute Dorsey on April 9 unless a court or Parson steps in.

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A KCPD panel is supposed to meet after police shootings. But it never reviewed two high-profile cases: Donnie Sanders, who was unarmed when Officer Blayne Newton shot him, and Cameron Lamb, who was shot by detective Eric DeValkenaere, who's now in prison.

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