{"id":2217481,"date":"2024-04-10T14:02:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-death-row-inmate-executed-18-years-after-he-killed-cousin-and-her-husband\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:03:14","slug":"missouri-death-row-inmate-executed-18-years-after-he-killed-cousin-and-her-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-death-row-inmate-executed-18-years-after-he-killed-cousin-and-her-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Death Row Inmate Executed After 18 Years for Killing Cousin and Her Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-death-row-inmate-executed-18-years-after-he-killed-cousin-and-her-husband%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217481&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Brian Dorsey, a Missouri \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawyers-for-woman-on-death-row-request-president-trump-grant-clemency-a-week-before-execution\/\" title=\"Lawyers for woman on death row request President Trump grant clemency a week before execution\">death row<\/a> inmate who murdered his cousin and her husband 18 years ago, was executed, as reported by \u2062the New York Post. Dorsey, 52, apologized \u200cto\u200c his family just \u2064before\u2064 his execution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/starbucks-gets-bad-news-after-jury-finds-manager-was-fired-for-being-white\/\" title=\"Starbucks faces backlash as jury determines manager's dismissal based on race.\">expressing deep remorse<\/a> for\u200b his actions. Sentenced in 2006, the killings orphaned Sarah and Ben Bonnie&#8217;s daughter shortly before Christmas, leaving a tragic aftermath. Brian Dorsey, a Missouri death row inmate, was \u2064executed\u2063 for the murder\u200c of his\u200d cousin\u200d and \u200bher husband 18 years\u200b ago. Before his execution, Dorsey, aged 52, apologized to his family, showing\u2064 deep remorse. The killings left Sarah and Ben Bonnie&#8217;s daughter parentless\u200b just before Christmas, resulting in\u200b a heartbreaking aftermath.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A man on Missouri\u2019s death row who killed his cousin and her husband 18 years ago was executed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Dorsey, 52, apologized to his family for his crimes just before he was put to death, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/09\/us-news\/brian-dorsey-executed-18-years-after-killing-cousin-her-husband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all of the family and loved ones I share with Sarah and to all of the surviving family and loved ones of Ben, I am totally, deeply, overwhelmingly sorry,\u201d he wrote, according to the outlet. \u201cWords cannot hold the just weight of my guilt and shame. I still love you. I never wanted to hurt anyone. I am sorry I hurt them and you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey was sentenced to lethal injection in 2006 after he was convicted of murdering his cousin, Sarah, and her husband, Ben Bonnie, just before Christmas. The killings left the couple\u2019s four-year-old daughter without parents.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey had asked the Bonnies for money after claiming two drug dealers were demanding he pay his debts, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/brian-dorsey-missouri-execution-rcna147113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The couple brought Dorsey back to their home on December 23, 2006, to let him stay over, but he grabbed their shotgun and killed them both.<\/p>\n<p>Their young daughter was home but wasn\u2019t harmed.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey pleaded guilty to the murders but a jury was brought in for sentencing, resulting in the death penalty. The jury found seven aggravating factors that led to its recommendation of death, including the fact that Dorsey sexually assaulted Sarah\u2019s body after shooting her. After the murders, Dorsey stole several items from the home to pay off his drug debt, the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime later, Sarah\u2019s parents stopped by the home to check on the couple, who had only been married for one year. In the home, they found the couple\u2019s little girl sitting on the couch watching TV. She told her grandparents that her mother \u201cwon\u2019t wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey turned himself in three days after the murders.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dorsey previously apologized for his crimes, NBC reported, saying he had been in a drug-induced psychosis at the time. He appealed his sentence but was denied two appeals by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Prison officials also wrote to Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, to spare Dorsey\u2019s life, calling him a \u201cmodel inmate\u201d and explaining how he cut the warden\u2019s hair after being allowed to work as a barber. Parson denied the request.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Department of Corrections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/missouri-death-row-inmate-killed-cousin-husband-2006-executed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News that Dorsey died quickly after he was lethally injected. He was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. on April 9, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Dorsey, 52, convicted of killing his cousin and her husband 18 years ago, was executed on Tuesday in Missouri. He apologized to his family before the execution. \u201cTo all of the family and loved ones I share with Sarah and [her husband], forgive me for this atrocity,\u201d he expressed, as reported by the New York Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2217482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-521107252.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-521107252.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}