Dru Sjodin's Killer Gets Death Penalty
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Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr. was found guilty in August, and sentenced to die in September, for the kidnapping and killing of college student Dru Sjodin. Today, the judge made it official.
A rapist who killed college student Dru Sjodin six months after being released from prison was formally sentenced to death Thursday in a case that led to tougher sex-offender laws.
U.S District Judge Ralph Erickson also rejected a motion for a new trial for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 53, who was convicted last fall of kidnapping resulting in death.
Sjodin, 22, a University of North Dakota student from Pequot Lakes, Minn., disappeared from a Grand Forks shopping mall parking lot in 2003. Her body was found nearly five months later in a Minnesota ravine. Authorities said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed.
[Source: FOX News]
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