Killer executed 20 years after strangling girl

A man convicted of abducting an 11-year-old girl from a park 20 years ago and then raping and strangling her was executed today.

A man convicted of abducting an 11-year-old girl from a park 20 years ago and then raping and strangling her was executed today.

Robert Buell failed in eleventh hour appeals that were based on objections to the hypnotising of witnesses at his trial.

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