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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Donald Moeller's appeal of his conviction for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old Sioux Falls girl.
• Moeller argued his conviction should have been overturned because the jury instructions weren't complete.
• Moeller went on trial twice. He was convicted

and sentenced to death in 1997. He says jurors weren't told he would not have been eligible for parole if he got a life prison sentence.
• Moeller believes he got the death sentence because the jury thought he could be released from prison.
• Moeller was convicted of kidnapping 9-year-old Becky O'Connell from a Sioux Falls convenience store, then raping and killing her.
• South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley on Monday said Moeller's execution is overdue.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Gasoline prices are falling in North Dakota and South Dakota, and an analyst says they should continue to decline in the coming weeks.
• Websites that report gas prices in the Dakotas say South Dakota's average gasoline price dropped 3.4 cents a gallon in the past week.

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