The state of Missouri executed Brian Dorsey on Tuesday despite a rare call by 70 prison guards and a former warden for his life to be spared. Dorsey was convicted in 2006 for murdering his cousin and her husband while high on drugs. He later turned himself in and pleaded guilty. Prison guards at the Potosi Correctional Center recently wrote to Missouri Governor Mike Parson, urging him to commute Dorsey’s death sentence. They cited his unblemished record in prison, during which time he became a popular barber who cut the hair of both prisoners and staff. The guards wrote, “He doesn’t deserve to be executed. We know that he was convicted of murder, but that is not the Brian Dorsey that we know.”