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Martin Link
Aug. 10, 1991 - Martin Link arrives at St. Louis
Circuit Court on Thursday for closing arguments in
his murder trial. Jurors later found Link guilty of raping and
strangling Elissa Self-Braun, 11.
Martin Link
Martin Link
Martin Link
Inmate Martin Link,
sentenced to death in the murder of an 11-year-old girl, gestures during
an
interview at Potosi Correctional Center, Missouri's maximum security
prison where condemned
men live in the general prison population, Jan.
11, 2007 in Mineral Point, Mo.
This photo provided Feb. 7, 2011, by the Missouri Department of
Corrections shows Martin
Link who is
scheduled to be executed at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 at
the
prison in Bonne Terre, Mo.,
for the kidnap, rape and murder of 11-year-old Elissa Self
in 1991.
It will be the first execution in Missouri in two years.
(AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)
The victim
Elissa Self-Braun in a
family photo.
Pam Braun, mother of Elissa Self-Braun, holds up a
photo of her daughter while giving
a statement after
the execution of Martin Link just after midnight on Wednesday
morning at the Bonne Terre Correctional
Center. "We have been truly blessed the
justice system has worked
for Elissa, whereas there are still
many victims
and homicide survivors still waiting for justice,"
Braun said.
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