Dru Sjodin

New York Times:

A federal jury in North Dakota sentenced a convicted sex offender to execution for kidnapping and killing a college student in after she left a shopping mall Nov. 22, 2003. The man, Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 53, of Crookston, Minn., was convicted Aug. 30 of kidnapping resulting in the death of the woman, Dru Sjodin, 22. North Dakota’s last execution was in 1905. The state no longer has the death penalty, but it is allowed in federal cases. Mr. Rodriguez was charged under federal law because Ms. Sjodin was taken across state lines.