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The man convicted 20 years ago of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a North Dakota student has been transferred from Indiana’s death row to a Florida jail, according to federal records.
Alfonso Rodriguez, 70, was convicted of killing 22-year-old Dru Sjodin in November 2003 after abducting her from a shopping mall parking lot in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Her body was found in April of the following year in Crookston, Minnesota.
Rodriguez has been transferred from a death row prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Coleman II, a maximum-security prison in Sumterville, Florida, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records, The Bismarck Tribune reported.
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A man convicted of the murder of a North Dakota student has been transferred from Indiana’s death row to a Florida jail. (Fox news)
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Rodriguez was sentenced to death in 2007. His death sentence was overturned in September 2021 when a federal judge ruled that Rodriguez’s constitutional rights had been violated at his trial, citing misleading coroner’s testimony, attorneys’ failure to discuss a possible insanity defense, and clues for severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Federal prosecutors announced in March that they would not seek the death penalty again, and Rodriguez’s sentence was changed to life in prison without parole.
