Floyd Medlock was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of Katherine Busch
According to court documents seven year old Katherine Busch would go to the apartment of Floyd Medlock. Medlock would attack the little girl who would be sexually assaulted before she was murdered
Floyd Medlock would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Floyd Medlock would be executed by lethal injection on January 16 2001
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Floyd Medlock was executed on January 16 2002
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A man who made a curious 7-year-old girl macaroni and cheese in his apartment, then fatally stabbed, beat and sexually molested her was executed Tuesday night at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Floyd Allen Medlock, 29, was pronounced dead at 9:20 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection. He confessed and pleaded guilty to the Feb. 19, 1990, murder of Katherine Ann Busch, who lived near Medlock with her mother at a Yukon apartment complex.
Medlock’s execution was the third in Oklahoma this month, with five more scheduled over the next three weeks. Last week, the state was the focus of national attention and a spate of protests over the execution of two-time killer Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman executed in the United States since 1954. Medlock’s execution drew interest from a number of newspapers and television stations, as well as two dozen protesters on both sides of the death penalty issue. In Oklahoma City, about 40 people stood in the sleet outside the Governor’s Mansion in protest of the execution and support of a death penalty moratorium.
But Medlock’s execution was marked by a more private dispute between the grandmothers of his victim, Johnnie Cabrera and Judy Busch, who have opposite opinions about capital punishment. Judy Busch is an ardent death penalty advocate who founded a support group for homicide survivors. Cabrera is chairwoman of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and considers execution murder. Both were at the prison Tuesday night to watch the execution. Busch headed up a group there on Katherine Busch’s behalf, while Cabrera was there as a guest of Medlock, saying she was extended no invitation to be a witness for her granddaughter. Cabrera exchanged letters with Medlock while he was in prison, hoping to get answers about the crime. She said her acceptance of Medlock’s invitation was in no way a show of support for the man who murdered her granddaughter, but Judy Busch said she was “completely confused” by Cabrera’s actions.
Police said Katherine Busch spent her last evening alive pedaling her tiny bicycle around the Woodoaks Apartments where she lived with her mother, Gina Ford. During Busch’s ride, police said she saw Medlock in an apartment where she and her mother used to live, and stopped to talk. About 6 1/2 hours later, police found Busch’s nude body — raped, beaten, stabbed and wrapped in a sheet and blanket — in a drugstore garbage bin three blocks away.
