Convict executed for murder of young woman in 1996
Confused by DNA tests conducted in 2002, Anthony S. received a lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in the town of McAlester.
PublishedSeptember 21, 2023, 7:34 p.m.
Despite the overwhelming evidence, Anthony S. has continued to proclaim his innocence.
AFP
A 44-year-old American man sentenced to death for the murder and rape of a student in 1996 was executed Thursday by lethal injection in Oklahoma, announced the prosecutor and the prison administration of this state in the center of the country.
DNA found on victim
The rape and murder of Juli Busken, 21, a dance student at the University of Oklahoma, remained unsolved until DNA testing of Anthony S., following his incarceration in Oklahoma in 2002 for burglary. State police later matched his DNA with that found on the victim, leading to Anthony S.’s death sentence in 2006.
The latter has continued to proclaim his innocence and had recently blamed the crime on his father, who committed suicide in 2022 and would have confessed to having committed it, according to him. But DNA tests carried out on the deceased invalidated this theory and Anthony S.’s appeals to obtain a stay of execution were rejected. He was executed Thursday morning at the state penitentiary in the town of McAlester.
18th execution in 2023
Oklahoma resumed capital executions in 2021 after a six-year moratorium due to botched executions in 2014 and 2015. That of Anthony S. is the third since the start of the year. it’s about the 18th execution in the United States in 2023all carried out by lethal injection.
(AFP)
2023-09-21 17:34:33
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