FARGO (AP) - The man facing the death penalty for killing college student Dru Sjodin has arrived at a federal prison in Indiana, the U.S. marshal says.

Officers flew with Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr., 54, from Oklahoma City to Indiana, where he was transported by bus to the prison in Terre Haute, Ind., U.S. Marshal Dave Carpenter said Wednesday.

Rodriguez, of Crookston, Minn., was sentenced Feb. 8 to die by lethal injection. Sjodin disappeared from a Grand Forks shopping mall in November 2003. Her body was found the following April in a ravine near Crookston. Officials said she had been beaten, raped and stabbed. Rodriguez was convicted of kidnapping resulting in her death.

Carpenter said Rodriguez arrived at the Terre Haute prison about 1 p.m. Wednesday.

He spent nearly three years at the Cass County Jail while waiting for his death penalty trial and sentencing. A jury convicted him and voted for the death penalty Sept. 22, after a 12-week trial.

North Dakota abolished capital punishment decades ago, but federal law allows it.