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Execution looms for SD killer, ending 22-year saga
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Torrential overnight rains had washed away the blood so the searchers at first thought the pale form lying on the earthen berm might be a mannequin.
"I almost didn't believe it," recalled former Lincoln County Sheriff Ken Albers, the first officer to approach the body of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. "You don't mess up a crime scene, but I had to walk over and touch the body to convince myself that it was real."
The shocking discovery that night in 1990 began a 22-year legal and emotional saga that is expected to end Tuesday, when Donald Moeller, who was convicted of abducting and murdering the girl, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection in the state penitentiary.
After decades of appeals, Moeller, 60, now accepts his fate without protest. But the end leaves behind a community still marked by the crime and its experience with capital punishment.
Moeller's death sentence in 1992 was the first handed down in South Dakota in 45 years. Until this month, when the killer of a prison guard was executed, there had been only one other execution in the state since the 1940s.
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No such thing as "justice". IMO
Just think what we are paying to keep the muslim at Ft Hood Tx alive. His pay alone is over $100k pr year. It's been four years and his MILITARY trial is delayed because he won't shave his face.
No such thing as "justice". IMO
Just feed that one to the pigs.
At a cost of $45k per year, we the people have paid nearly one million dollars to keep that animal alive.
In my state the cost for keeping an inmate on death row is $59.98 per day.
That works out to $21,892.70 per year.
Still too much.