USA - Missouri. Roderick Nunley, 50, Black, was executed

Roderick Nunley, 50, Black, was executed for the for the March 22, 1989 kidnapping, rape and stabbing death of Ann Harrison, 15, White. The case was cracked months later when a man in jail for robbery - and seeking a $10,000 reward in the case - turned in Taylor and Nunley. Both men confessed, and some of Ann's hair was found in carpeting at the home where the crime occurred. Nunley and another man, Michael Taylor, were sentenced to death in 1991. Taylor was executed last year (see Feb. 26, 2014). Nunlley becomes the 6th inmate to be put to death this year in Missouri and the 86th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1989. Nunley becomes the 20th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1414th overall since the nation resumed executions on january 17, 1977.