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South Dakota executes man for rape, death of 9-year-old girl in 1990
October 31, 2012
July 18, 2012: This file frame grab provided by KELO-TV shows
convicted killer Donald Moeller during a court appearance in Sioux
Falls, S.D. (AP)
A South Dakota inmate was executed Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and
murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to
buy sugar at a nearby store so she could make lemonade.
Donald Moeller, 60, received a lethal injection at the state
penitentiary in Sioux Falls, marking South Dakota's second execution
this month in an unusual surge for a state that has carried out just
two other death sentences since 1913. He was pronounced dead at 10:24
p.m.
Moeller kidnapped Becky O'Connell from a Sioux Falls convenience
store, where she'd gone to buy sugar to make lemonade at home. He
drove her to a secluded area near the Big Sioux River, then raped and
stabbed the girl. Her naked body was found the next day; investigators
said her throat had been slashed.
Becky's mother, Tina Curl, has been steadfast in her wish to watch
Moeller die, even raising funds to cover the expenses to make the
1,400-mile trip from her home in New York state to Sioux Falls for the
execution.
"He watched my daughter take her last breath. I want to watch him take
his last breath," Curl told The Associated Press in August. "I'm doing
this for her and for me."
Moeller initially was convicted in 1992, but the state Supreme Court
overturned it, ruling that improper evidence was used at trial. He was
again convicted and sentenced to die in 1997. The state Supreme Court
affirmed the sentence, and Moeller lost appeals on both the state and
federal levels.
Though he fought his conviction and sentence for years, Moeller in
July he said he was ready to accept death as the consequence of his
actions. He admitted for the first time in court that he killed the
girl.
"I killed. I deserve to be killed," he said.
But even as Moeller insisted he was ready to die, several motions were
filed on his behalf to stop the execution despite his protests.
Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed a pending suit
challenging South Dakota's execution protocol after Moeller insisted
he wanted no part of it. Moeller also distanced himself from a motion
filed by a woman with loose family ties who argued that his decades in
solitary confinement had made him incapable of voluntarily accepting
his fate. That motion was dismissed Monday.
Moeller's execution comes just two weeks after the Oct. 15 execution
of Eric Robert for killing South Dakota prison guard Ronald "R.J."
Johnson during a failed escape attempt.
Before that, the last execution in South Dakota was in 2007, when
Elijah Page died by lethal injection for the murder of Chester Allan
Poage, who was abducted and killed in a scheme to burglarize his
mother's home.
In 1947, George Sitts was electrocuted for killing two law enforcement
officers. And in 1913, Joseph Rickman was hanged for the murder of a
woman and her daughter.
They were among 17 inmates executed since 1877, the oldest of which
came during the days of the Dakota Territory
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South Dakota executes man for rape, death of 9-year-old girl in 1990
October 31, 2012
July 18, 2012: This file frame grab provided by KELO-TV shows
convicted killer Donald Moeller during a court appearance in Sioux
Falls, S.D. (AP)
A South Dakota inmate was executed Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and
murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to
buy sugar at a nearby store so she could make lemonade.
Donald Moeller, 60, received a lethal injection at the state
penitentiary in Sioux Falls, marking South Dakota's second execution
this month in an unusual surge for a state that has carried out just
two other death sentences since 1913. He was pronounced dead at 10:24
p.m.
Moeller kidnapped Becky O'Connell from a Sioux Falls convenience
store, where she'd gone to buy sugar to make lemonade at home. He
drove her to a secluded area near the Big Sioux River, then raped and
stabbed the girl. Her naked body was found the next day; investigators
said her throat had been slashed.
Becky's mother, Tina Curl, has been steadfast in her wish to watch
Moeller die, even raising funds to cover the expenses to make the
1,400-mile trip from her home in New York state to Sioux Falls for the
execution.
"He watched my daughter take her last breath. I want to watch him take
his last breath," Curl told The Associated Press in August. "I'm doing
this for her and for me."
Moeller initially was convicted in 1992, but the state Supreme Court
overturned it, ruling that improper evidence was used at trial. He was
again convicted and sentenced to die in 1997. The state Supreme Court
affirmed the sentence, and Moeller lost appeals on both the state and
federal levels.
Though he fought his conviction and sentence for years, Moeller in
July he said he was ready to accept death as the consequence of his
actions. He admitted for the first time in court that he killed the
girl.
"I killed. I deserve to be killed," he said.
But even as Moeller insisted he was ready to die, several motions were
filed on his behalf to stop the execution despite his protests.
Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed a pending suit
challenging South Dakota's execution protocol after Moeller insisted
he wanted no part of it. Moeller also distanced himself from a motion
filed by a woman with loose family ties who argued that his decades in
solitary confinement had made him incapable of voluntarily accepting
his fate. That motion was dismissed Monday.
Moeller's execution comes just two weeks after the Oct. 15 execution
of Eric Robert for killing South Dakota prison guard Ronald "R.J."
Johnson during a failed escape attempt.
Before that, the last execution in South Dakota was in 2007, when
Elijah Page died by lethal injection for the murder of Chester Allan
Poage, who was abducted and killed in a scheme to burglarize his
mother's home.
In 1947, George Sitts was electrocuted for killing two law enforcement
officers. And in 1913, Joseph Rickman was hanged for the murder of a
woman and her daughter.
They were among 17 inmates executed since 1877, the oldest of which
came during the days of the Dakota Territory
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Learn the TRUTH about: Bradley K Sherman, Bret Cahill, Dakota, David Johnston, Kevin Cunningham,
Kurt Lochner, Jay Herblock, Lamont Cranston, Lee Curtis, LiberalHere, Lookout, Lickin Ass' and
Fakin' Military Service, Lubow, Mitchel Holman, Ramon Herrera, Ray Fischer, Rightardia, RobW,
Roneal, Sanders Kaufman, ShittingDuck, Sid9, SilentOtto, Sir Gay, Tater Gumfries, Tim Crowley,
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