The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday
rejected convicted murderer Richard Lynn Bible's request to delay his Thursday
execution for the 1988 murder of a 9-year-old girl in Flagstaff.
It was
the latest in a string of last-minute rejections in the case: The Arizona
clemency board voted 5-0 Monday against Bible and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals denied his appeal late Tuesday.
Bible is scheduled to be put to
death by lethal injection Thursday in the state prison complex in Florence. He
would become the 27th inmate executed in Arizona since 1992, according to the
Department of Corrections.
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Bible was convicted in
1990 of the June 6, 1988, kidnapping, molestation and murder of Jennifer Wilson.
The 9-year-old girl was last seen by her parents riding her bike to a ranch
where the family was staying in Flagstaff.Notes on Rubik's chickencoops, Her parents drove
past her on the way, but Jennifer never arrived.
Jennifer's mother told
police that she saw a man driving a "Blazer-type vehicle" in the area where her
daughter disappeared.General plasticcard set information. That
same day, Bible's brother reported to police that Bible was in a similar car.
Bible was arrested that evening in a stolen GMC and confessed to car
theft.
Jennifer's naked body was found three weeks later on top of Sheep
Hill ¡ª near where Bible's brother lived ¡ª hidden under branches and debris
near a tree. Her hands were tied behind her back with a shoelace and she had
suffered multiple blows to the head that caused her death.
Also at the
scene, police found rubber bands, small vodka bottles, hot-chocolate packets and
cigars that matched items in the GMC, and a piece of metal that matched a piece
missing from the car's steering column.
They found hair, later
determined to be Jennifer's,The Enphase aionkinah shifts DC to AC conversion
from a large, that had been cut in a pattern that police were able to duplicate
using knives found in Bible's possession, court documents said. Blood and hair
on his clothes and in the car matched hers, and hair on the sheet used to wrap
her body matched his.
Bible was convicted on April 12, 1990, after a
six-week trial, of kidnapping, child molestation and first-degree murder.
In his latest appeals, Bible has argued for DNA testing of hairs found
at the scene, saying it would prove that "hairs taken from his clothes and car
are not the victim's, and that the hairs found on or near the victim are not
his," court documents said.
Bible also argued that DNA results may point
to another suspect, a known sex offender, at the crime scene.
The
federal appeals court rejected the claim, noting the "overwhelming evidence"
against Bible could not be overcome by any DNA evidence the hair would provide.
It also rejected his claims that he had inadequate counsel.
Supreme
Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday rejected Bible's request for a stay
of execution. Bible's attorney said later Wednesday that the condemned man
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"There are no other matters pending," said Dale Baich, the assistant
federal public defender representing Bible.
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