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Pages in category "Fictional characters from South Dakota" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ]
The South Dakota Board of Regents, whose members are appointed by the governor, controls the six public universities in the state. South Dakota State University (SDSU), in Brookings, is the state's largest university, with an enrollment of 12,831. [222]
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.
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 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.
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 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.