{"id":9543,"date":"2023-09-15T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T22:40:10","slug":"oklahoma-set-to-execute-brutal-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9543","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Set to Execute Brutal Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has refused to stay the September 21 execution of Oklahoma killer Anthony Sanchez for the 1996 rape and murder of 21-year-old Juli Busken.\u00a0 Dylan Goforth of the Frontier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readfrontier.org\/stories\/oklahoma-is-set-to-execute-10th-man-in-less-than-two-years\/\">reports<\/a> that while detectives found DNA on the victims underwear and pajamas, they were unable to find a match until 2004 after a DNA sample was taken from Sanchez while he was in prison for a burglary conviction. \u00a0 His sample matched the DNA found on the victim.\u00a0 Two years later Sanchez was convicted on overwhelming evidence and sentenced to death.\u00a0 On September 13, a federal district judge denied his request for a stay.\u00a0 Last Spring Newsweek published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/anthony-sanchez-death-row-execution-juli-busken-murder-1802311\">article<\/a> claiming that years ago, Sanchez&#8217;s now-deceased father told his ex-girlfriend that he killed Juli Busken.\u00a0 The odds of the DNA match being incorrect are 1 in 94 trillion for Southwest Hispanics.\u00a0 <strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 Sanchez was pronounced dead at 10:19 am Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/court\/ok-court-of-criminal-appeals\/1500256.html\">According<\/a> to Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, at 5:30 am on December 20, 1996, Juli Busken, a just graduated ballerina, was returning to her college town apartment after driving her roommate to the airport.\u00a0 As she parked her car, three people heard a scream from the parking lot and one heard and a man&#8217;s voice order someone to get into the car.\u00a0 When her neighbors went to investigate, Busken&#8217;s red Eagle Summit with Arkansas plates was gone.\u00a0 Her body was found by a nearby lake that evening.\u00a0 She had been beaten, raped and shot in the head. \u00a0 At trial a witness testified to seeing a small red car by the lake at about 6:45 am, with a man fitting Sanchez&#8217;s description behind the wheel and a young woman passenger who looked frightened.\u00a0 Another witness testified to seeing a red car with Arkansas plates driving away from the lake at around 7:15 am with a man driving and no passenger.\u00a0 Late that evening police found the car parked across the street from Busken&#8217;s apartment.\u00a0 Her cell phone and several other items were missing.\u00a0\u00a0 A sperm sample was taken from pajama bottoms found in the car and from the victim&#8217;s underwear.\u00a0 The next day police traced three calls placed from Busken&#8217;s phone.\u00a0 One of the calls was to Sanchez&#8217;s ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Absent a last-minute stay from an appellate court, next Thursday Sanchez will be the 18th murderer executed in the U.S. this year.\u00a0 At this point in 2022, ten murderers had been executed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has refused to stay the September 21 execution of Oklahoma killer Anthony Sanchez for the 1996 rape and murder of 21-year-old Juli Busken.\u00a0 Dylan Goforth of the Frontier reports that while detectives found DNA on the victims underwear and pajamas, they were unable to find a match until 2004 after a DNA sample was taken from Sanchez while he was in prison for a burglary conviction. \u00a0 His sample matched the DNA found on the victim.\u00a0 Two years later Sanchez was convicted on overwhelming evidence and sentenced to death.\u00a0 On September 13, a federal district judge denied his request for a stay.\u00a0 Last Spring Newsweek published an article claiming that years ago, Sanchez&#8217;s now-deceased father told his ex-girlfriend that he killed Juli Busken.\u00a0 The odds of the DNA match being incorrect are 1 in 94 trillion for Southwest Hispanics.\u00a0 Update:\u00a0 Sanchez was pronounced dead at 10:19 am Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oklahoma Set to Execute Brutal Murderer - Crime &amp; 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