Posted on 09/01/2015 6:12:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris
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.
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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.
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He’s a squishy, spineless, goober. All one has to do is see how he reacted to the rioters. It’s hard to say but I wouldn’t trust him with 25 cents.
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I think even Barry is a little uncomfortable with the interpersonal distance.
Bastard should have fried in ole' sparky before Bush's Term was out at the longest!
Raping and murdering a little 15 year old girl is also “unconstitutional”, so what’s your point Skippy? For once, stop the cowardice and take your punishment like a man.
I’m not ticked.
I’m furious at the number worthless lazy people in this country that identify as conservative and/or Christian.
Their maker will hold them accountable for holocaust II.
While man’s authority still “rules” earth, this perp should be shot up with adrenaline and publicly executed by blowtorch castration.
Any afro-hate domestic terrorists engaged in armed protest should be introduced to Jesus - in the nonevangelical manner with belt-fed death or flamethrowers.
Flamethrowers would be more humane - to give them a foretaste of their eternity.
America is like a sapling that grew crooked. Once it's mature there's no way to straighten it out.
Missouri has been feeding and caring for this murderer for 26 years. That’s nearly twice as long as his victim lived. Something is wrong with the system.
An update:
Missouri executes man who raped, killed teenage girl
By Carey Gillam
http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-executes-man-convicted-rape-murder-teenage-girl-022800167.html
(Reuters) - Missouri on Tuesday executed a man who, along with a friend, pleaded guilty to the 1989 abduction, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, a state corrections department spokesman said.
Roderick Nunley, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. CDT after receiving a lethal injection of drugs at the state’s death chamber in Bonne Terre, Missouri, corrections spokesman Mike O’Connell said.
Nunley pleaded guilty to the murder of Ann Harrison, a Kansas City high school girl who was waiting for her school bus on a March morning when he and accomplice Michael Taylor drove by and decided to kidnap and rape her, according to court papers. After assaulting her, they stabbed Harrison multiple times and left her body in the trunk of a car they had stolen.
Taylor also pleaded guilty, and was executed in April 2014.
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