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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 the morning of April 12, 2011, the date of his 63rd birthday, corrections officer Ronald Johnson, who had been on the job for 23 years and was close to retiring, was working in the Pheasantland Industries, a print shop building located within the prison compound of South Dakota State Penitentiary, where inmates work on upholstery, signs, furniture, and other projects.
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Rhines confessed to the crime. Despite this, the state took the case to trial when they refused to drop the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea to murder. In South Dakota, the death penalty can only be imposed by a jury, and it must be unanimous. [6] On January 26, 1993, Rhines was sentenced to death.
[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] At the age of 25, Page is also the youngest person executed in South Dakota in the modern era.
South Dakota State Penitentiary Robert Leroy Anderson (December 4, 1969 – March 30, 2003), known as the Duct Tape Killer , was an American murderer, rapist, and self-proclaimed serial killer who was sentenced to death in South Dakota for the murders of Larisa Dumansky and Piper Streyle in 1994 and 1996, respectively. [ 1 ]
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 state sought the death penalty, making Wright the first woman in South Dakota history to face capital punishment. [5] On February 11 and 21, partial remains belonging to VanderGiesen were recovered from the Sioux Falls landfill. [16] [5] Her body had been partially burned and dismembered at the torso and legs.