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Oklahoma is readying to execute a man for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma dance student. Barring a last-minute stay, 44-year-old Anthony Sanchez is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Sanchez was convicted in 2006 of raping and killing 21-year-old Juli Busken. The student from Benton, Arkansas, was abducted on Dec. 20, 1996, from her Norman apartment complex. Her body was found later that evening. She had been raped and shot in the head. The case went unsolved for years until crime scene DNA matched Sanchez whil...

Oklahoma is set to execute an inmate Thursday morning for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma dance student, a case that went unsolved for years until...

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 from the crime scene was matched to a man serving prison time for burglary.

Oklahoma is set to execute an inmate Thursday morning for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma dance student, a case that went unsolved for years until...

A death row inmate who was convicted of the rape and murder of 21-year-old ballerina Juli Busken in 1996 was put to death on Thursday morning despite controversial DNA evidence used in his conviction