Convicted double murderer to be executed in Missouri

WASHINGTON — A Missouri man convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband is to be executed in Missouri on Tuesday, despite widespread calls for his life to be spared.

Brian Dorsey, 52, is to be put to death by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m. Central Time (2300 GMT) for the 2006 murders of Sarah Bonnie, 25, and her husband Ben Bonnie, 28, in New Bloomfield, Missouri.

Dorsey pleaded guilty to shooting the couple with a shotgun after they took him in for the night to protect him from drug dealers who were trying to collect on a debt.