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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Dakota from 1877 to date. A total of 20 people have been executed in South Dakota since 1877. Prior to 1915, the sole method of execution was via hanging. South Dakota banned the death penalty in 1915, but it was reinstated in 1939.
On October 29, 2018, 56-year-old Rodney Berget was put to death via lethal injection at South Dakota State Penitentiary, six years after the execution of his accomplice Eric Robert. He became the fourth person to be executed in South Dakota since 2007 and the 19th person to have his death sentence carried out in South Dakota since 1877.
The only person ever to be judicially electrocuted in South Dakota was George Sitts, who was put to death on April 8, 1947, at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. [16] South Dakota was the second-to-last state to adopt electrocution as an execution method, and Sitts' execution was South Dakota's last until after Furman. [17] On January 1, 1979 ...
The execution of Charles Rhines took place on November 4, 2019, at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Rhines was executed for the 1992 murder of Donnivan Schaeffer, whom he killed during a burglary at a doughnut shop in Rapid City .
Page was executed by lethal injection at South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls on July 11, 2007. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] He was the first person executed in South Dakota in over sixty years and the first person executed in South Dakota since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1979. [ 14 ]
Advocates around the country are fighting jury discrimination after one man’s sexuality was a contributing factor in his 2019 execution. Charles Rhines confessed to murdering 22-year-old ...
Richard Moore will be the second person executed in South Carolina following a 13-year pause when the state ran out of the drugs needed for lethal injections.
People executed by South Dakota (4 C, 1 P) P. Prisoners sentenced to death by South Dakota (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in South Dakota"