Roderick Nunley (Pic above left is Roderick and right is Taylor) who had been locked away spent almost 25 years on death row for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a fifteen year-old Anna has now been executed in Missouri.
Nunley and Michael Taylor made a spur-of-the-moment decision to abduct her after driving by in a stolen car.
Both men were sentenced to death in 1991. Taylor was executed last year.
Chris Koster, Missouri Attorney General, said in a statement: "Despite openly admitting his guilt to the court, it has taken 25 years to get him to the execution chamber.
"Nunley's case offers a textbook example showing why society is so frustrated with a system that has become too cumbersome."
Nunley and Taylor were both black, while their victim was white.
In March 1989, Ann Harrison disappeared in Kansas City while waiting for a school bus on her driveway.
They kidnapped Ann and took her to Nunley's mother's home, where they raped her and then stabbed her repeatedly in the stomach and neck.
Nunley and Taylor were arrested after a man in jail for a robbery turned them in. Some of Ann's hair was found in carpet at the home where they attacked her, Ann's body was found in the boot of the abandoned car three days later.
The clemency appeal had argued that Nunley would have been sentenced to life in prison without parole if he had been granted a plea deal.
The US Supreme Court denied several appeals by lawyers representing Nunley, including one which stated that the death penalty amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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