The Missouri Supreme Court has authorized a death warrant and scheduled the execution of a man convicted of murder nearly twenty years ago.

Michael Taylor was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in June of 1994. Mr Taylor’s appeals were heard and denied by courts up to and including the United States Supreme Court.

Taylor and Roderick Nunley both admitted to abducting Ann Harrison, 15, from the Kansas City bus stop where she was waiting to go to school. Taylor had raped the girl with Nunley’s help in the basement of Nunley’s mother’s home before fatally stabbing her and abandoning her body in the trunk of a car.

The Missouri State Supreme Court on Friday ordered Taylor to be executed on February 26, 2014.

The Corrections Department is set to carry out its next execution Wednesday. Herbert Smulls is 56 and has been on death row for 21 years. He was sentenced to death in 1991 for the fatal shooting of Stephen Honickman, a St. Louis County jewelry store owner.