Dispatch From a Missouri Execution: A Microcosm of the US Death Penalty Fight

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Dispatch From a Missouri Execution: A Microcosm of the US Death Penalty Fight

The state-sponsored execution of 52-year-old Brian Dorsey on Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre, Missouri, marked the fifth such execution to take place in the U.S. this year, as right-wing activists across the nation push hard to expand the use of the death penalty. Two more executions are already scheduled to take place in Missouri this year, despite a multipronged anti-death-penalty campaign... Source