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This story has been updated with news of Dorsey’s execution. Missouri inmate Brian Dorsey was executed Tuesday evening after the US Supreme Court declined to intervene. The court turned down two appeals by Dorsey’s lawyers, one arguing that their client did not have proper legal representation by his public defenders and the other arguing that he had been ”fully rehabilitated” during his time in prison, USA Today reports. Dorsey, 52, was executed by lethal injection, reports CBS News. He is the first inmate to be executed in Missouri this year. Kirk Henderson, one of his attorneys, said Dors…