Missouri inmate pressing 11th-hour appeals he hopes derails scheduled execution Tuesday
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This Dec. 1, 2013 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows David Zink, who was convicted of abducting and killing 19-year-old Amanda Morton in 2001. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP) (The Associated Press)
A Missouri inmate who abducted and killed a 19-year-old woman in 2001 is asking state and federal appeals courts to spare him from execution.
Attorneys for 55-year-old David Zink has appeals pending Monday with the Missouri Supreme Court, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. A clemency request also was in Gov. Jay Nixon's hands.
Zink is scheduled to face lethal injection Tuesday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He was sentenced to death in 2004 after being convicted of tying Amanda Morton of Strafford to a cemetery tree and snapping her neck before slicing her spinal cord to make sure she would not survive.
Zink served as his own attorney at trial but was assisted by a public defender during the trial's punishment phase.