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Missouri man faces execution for raping, killing 15-year-old
By JIM SALTER
Aug. 31, 2015 2:51 PM EDT
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.
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.
Missouri man faces execution for raping, killing 15-year-old
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By JIM SALTER
Aug. 31, 2015 2:51 PM EDT
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.
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.
Missouri man faces execution for raping, killing 15-year-old
"GTP"
Dropping Like Flies, Love It!!!
