UPDATE: Missouri executes St. Louis girl's killer

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 | 2:40 p.m. CST; updated 11:04 a.m. CST, Wednesday, February 9, 2011

BONNE TERRE — A Missouri man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing an 11-year-old girl whose body was dumped along a river was put to death early Wednesday, the first execution in the state in nearly two years.

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