KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A friend of a murder victim said she was disappointed about the recent stay of execution for convicted killer Michael Anthony Taylor, KMBC's Peggy Breit reported Thursday.

Taylor was convicted of killing 15-year-old Ann Harrison, who was waiting for a school bus in front of her family's Kansas City home when he and an accomplice kidnapped her in March 1989. Harrison was raped, stabbed to death and abandoned in the trunk of a car.

Taylor pleaded guilty and said he was high on crack cocaine at the time.

A woman who was a close friend of Harrison said the horror of what happened to her has gotten lost in the legal wrangling surrounding Taylor.

"The whole world changed after that day, everything wasn't the same anymore," the friend said, who asked not to be identified.

Taylor was scheduled to be put to death Wednesday night, but the U.S. Supreme Court refused to lift a stay of execution granted earlier in the day by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Harrison's friend said the delay is frustrating, because she has been waiting for justice for almost 17 years.

"Here we go again -- it just makes my stomach turn," the friend said.

She said any pain Taylor would experience during an execution is nothing compared to the violence Harrison was forced to suffer.

"(Taylor spent) 90 minutes torturing her, and his minute of lethal injection is nothing compared to her 90 minutes of brutality that she had," the friend said.

The friend, who is 32 -- the same age Harrison would have been -- said she has heard Taylor apologize for the crime, but she puts little stock in it.

"Don't want to hear it. He had his choice to keep driving by and not to have picked her up, you know, he can say he's sorry until his last breath. Not going to do any good, can't bring her back," the friend said.

A memorial has been set up for Harrison at Cave Springs Park.

Breit reported that a new execution date will not be set for Taylor until the appeal runs its course.