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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.
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 ...
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.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's Corrections Department is refusing to disclose the specific lethal injection drug it will use in the planned execution this fall of a man who admitted to ...
Rhines was executed for the 1992 murder of Donnivan Schaeffer, whom he killed during a burglary at a doughnut shop in Rapid City. His execution drew attention due to claims that the jury sentenced him to death because he was gay and that anti-gay bias had tainted his sentence. [1] Rhines remains the most recent person executed in South Dakota ...
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 ...
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 ]
South Africa: 14 November 1989 [4] Solomon Ngobeni: murder: hanging: D South Sudan: 29 January 2025 [39] Sabir Abdallah Abusam rape/murder: hanging: D Sudan: 9 February 2021 [40] Eliza Aban Othu murder: hanging: C Tanzania: October 1994 [4] 7 unnamed men, 1 unnamed woman A Togo: 1978 [3] M. Adjata Koffi murder: A Transkei: never used C Tunisia ...