Missouri man faces execution for raping, killing 15-year-old
 

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ST. LOUIS (AP) ? An inmate scheduled to be executed Tuesday for killing a 15-year-old Missouri girl has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his punishment, saying the death penalty is unconstitutional.
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But a detective who helped break the case scoffed at the appeal Monday, saying Roderick Nunley should have been put to death long ago.

Nunley and a co-defendant were accused of kidnapping Ann Harrison as she waited for a school bus in Kansas City, then raping and killing the girl in 1989. If the courts don't step in, the 50-year-old Nunley will be lethally injected at 6 p.m. Tuesday and become the sixth inmate executed this year in Missouri.

Defense attorney Jennifer Herndon argued in an appeal that capital punishment, "under prevailing standards of decency," violates the U.S. Constitution's 8th Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment.

But retired Kansas City detective Pete Edlund said the only thing cruel and unusual is how long Nunley and his co-defendant Michael Taylor, who was executed last year, remained on death row.

"They just take forever to do the deed," Edlund told The Associated Press in an interview this week. "The delay in executing these two is just nuts because it didn't have anything to do with their guilt. It was legal mumbo jumbo nonsense."

In a new appeal filed Monday, Herndon challenged the state's refusal to disclose who makes its execution drug or how it is tested. The argument has been rejected by the Supreme Court in other death penalty cases.

Gov. Jay Nixon is reviewing a clemency petition from an anti-death penalty group that alleges racial bias played a role in the case because a prosecutor refused a plea deal that would have given Nunley life in prison without parole. Nunley is black, as was Taylor, while the victim was white.

Prosecutors said Nunley and Taylor binged on cocaine and stole a car in the pre-dawn hours of March 22, 1989. At one point, a police officer from neighboring Lee's Summit chased the car but was called off by a supervisor when the stolen car crossed into Kansas City.

Later that morning, the men were driving around Kansas City when they saw Ann standing on her driveway, waiting for a school bus. Taylor and Nunley quickly grabbed the 15-year-old girl and took her to Nunley's mother's home. She was raped and sodomized, then stabbed repeatedly in the stomach and the neck.

Taylor and Nunley put her body in the trunk of the stolen car, then abandoned it in a residential area. The body was found three days later.

Edlund, the detective, said the case was cracked months later when a man in jail for robbery ? and seeking a $10,000 reward in the case ? snitched on Taylor and Nunley. Both men confessed.

Meanwhile, some of Ann's hair was found in carpeting at the home where the crime occurred.

Edlund said the killing was haunting for several reasons, chiefly because she was a child and a random target. Her father was a former reserve officer with the police department, and her uncle was a Kansas City officer.

"To all of us, she was part of our police family," Edlund said. "That made it even more important that we solve the case."


Missouri man faces execution for raping, killing 15-year-old - Yahoo News

Save some $ and just toss his ass into general population.

Or over a bridge and save more money..

He's absolutely right you know.. killing him by lethal injection is completely unconstitutional. Instead, they should kill him by raping and sodomizing him, then stab him repeatedly in the stomach and the neck, just like they killed her. Now THAT'S the CONSTITUTIONAL way they SHOULD kill him. What a joke this country is. The judicial system in this country is a joke. He should be happy I don't run this country and the judicial system. People would think twice before they committed a crime, that much I can say for sure. Bible says an eye for an eye, lets roll with THAT.

I was expecting to see different mugshot, you took me by surprise, Mr. Donkstah :thumbsup

I don't really support the death penalty, but how is it cruel and unusual punishment? I think cruel and unusual punishment is when you slowly kill someone by hanging them by their thumbnails and then pulling their limbs out one at a time.

Putting someone to sleep or a bullet to the head is hardly cruel or unusual punishment.

Cruel and unusual punishment is killing a girl after you rape her.

They should just toss him in a meat chipper and make dog food out of his ass :2 cents:

The only option he has is a dead man walking defense. He is not even trying to overturn the judgment and sentence.

Guess the race... :disgust

I'm against the death penalty - including in this case but lifers for crimes like this should be living and working in such inhumane conditions that they quickly wish they were dead.

Unfortunately not possibly in todays pussyfied "human rights" world. According to them - even society parasites like this has "human rights".

He's getting off too easy :2 cents:

Wow...20 some years in jail and he is still fighting to stay alive? Must be goodtimes in there.

that could be obama's son, I'm sure is innocent :2 cents:

stop using your fingers and toes to count :Oh crap :helpme they are almost the same age :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

If he's guilty, he deserves what he's getting. :2 cents: