McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed an inmate Thursday for the 1996 killing of a University of Oklahoma dance student, in a case that went unsolved for years until DNA
A man convicted of the 1996 killing of a University of Oklahoma dance student has been executed. Forty-four-year-old Anthony Sanchez was pronounced dead following a lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. As he was strapped to the gurney, he repeated his claim of innocence. Sanchez was convicted in 2006 of raping and killing 21-year-old Juli Busken. The Benton, Arkansas, native was abducted on Dec. 20, 1996, from the parking lot of her Norman apartment complex. Her body was found hours later, and she had been raped and shot in the head. The case went unsolved for years until DNA recovered from her clothes matched that of Sanchez while he was serving prison time for burglary.
The US Supreme Court allowed the execution of Anthony Sanchez to proceed despite numerous evidentiary inconsistencies in the case against him, including questionable DNA evidence and the possibility that his father had committed the murder.
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