DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[Lady Cop]

A mother is battling to raise enough money to travel from New York to South Dakota to watch the execution of the man who raped and killed her nine-year-old daughter 22 years ago.

Tina Curl, 50, said she will only find justice when she watches Donald Moeller, 59, take his last breath from a 'front row seat' at his execution, scheduled for between October 28 and November 3.

'I have waited 22 long years for this,' Curl told ABC News. 'He watched her die and I am going to watch him die.'
Her daughter, Becky O'Connell, vanished on May 8, 1990 when she went to a convenience store a block from her home in Sioux Falls. Moeller grabbed her as she walked along the busy intersection.

An autopsy found Becky had been raped vaginally and anally and died of a cut to the jugular vein of her neck, according to court documents.

The youngster's naked body was found in a ditch in Lincoln County, South Dakota the next morning; she had been raped and stabbed, and died after her throat was slit, according to court documents.

they have a long way to go before they will witness the death of the man who snatched their daughter from them.

The couple will need to drive the 1,420 miles from their home to the execution as Tina is disabled; she said she has a bad heart and cannot fly.

And she said she will struggle to raise the money as receives just $721 a month for disability and can barely cover her bills, while her husband recently lost his job and is looking for more work.