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BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The latest on the scheduled execution of Missouri inmate Roderick Nunley, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 15-year-old girl in Kansas City in 1989 (all times local):
9:09 p.m.
A man who spent nearly 25 years on Missouri's death row has been executed for the kidnapping, rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old Kansas City girl.
Fifty-year-old Roderick Nunley died by injection Tuesday night. Of 20 executions nationally in 2015, 10 have been in Texas and six in Missouri.
Ann Harrison was waiting for a school bus on her driveway, 20 yards from her front door, on March 22, 1989. Nunley and Michael Taylor drove by in a stolen car and abducted her. They took her to the home of Nunley's mother where she was raped, sodomized and then fatally stabbed.
The girl's body was found in the trunk of the abandoned car three days later.
Both men were sentenced to death in 1991. Taylor was executed last year.
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5:30 p.m.
The U.S. Supreme Court says it won't stop the scheduled execution of a man convicted in the 1989 kidnapping, rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl in Kansas City.
The justices issued orders Tuesday evening denying a stay of execution for 50-year-old Roderick Nunley. He's set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the death of Ann Harrison.
Investigators say the girl was randomly targeted as she waited outside her home for the school bus. She was taken to a home, raped and fatally stabbed.
Nunley's attorney had three appeals pending before the Supreme Court. One questioned the constitutionality of the death penalty Another argued Nunley should've been sentenced by a jury, not a judge.
A third took issue with Missouri's process of secretly acquiring its execution drug.
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1 a.m.
Missouri prison officials are preparing to execute a man convicted of killing a 15-year-old girl more than two decades ago in Kansas City.
Fifty-year-old Roderick Nunley is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the kidnapping, rape and stabbing death of Ann Harrison. Investigators say the girl was randomly targeted while waiting in her driveway for the school bus on the morning of March 22, 1989.
Nunley's co-defendant, Michael Taylor, also was convicted of first-degree murder. He was executed last year.
Nunley's attorney has three appeals pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. One questions the constitutionality of the death penalty, while another argues that Nunley should've been sentenced by a jury, not a judge. An appeal filed Monday takes issues with Missouri's process of secretly acquiring its execution drug.
Gov. Jay Nixon is also weighing a clemency petition.
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