Man set to die by lethal injection tonight for 1979 murder of Tulsa woman

A man convicted of a 1979 Tulsa murder is set to die by lethal injection tonight at 6:00 p.m. at the state penitentiary in McAlester.

61-year-old Anthony Rozelle Banks was found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of 24-year-old Sun "Kim" Travis, a Korea national.

Prosecutors say Travis was kidnapped from the parking lot of her apartment complex, raped, and then shot to death.

The murder went unsolved for nearly 20 years, until Police used DNA to link Banks to the crime in 1997.

He was already serving a life sentence for shooting and killing a store clerk.

KRMG's Chris Cordt will be in McAlester tonight, and will be a witness to the execution.

He will have more on the story Wednesdahy morning on the KRMG Morning News with Dan Potter.