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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 ...
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 .
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.
Rodney Berget is to be put to death for the 2011 slaying of Ronald "R.J." Johnson, who was beaten with a pipe and had his head covered in plastic wrap.
The executions marked a rarity in South Dakota as Moeller's execution was the second execution in just one month in South Dakota, which was an unusual surge for the state, as it had carried out only two other executions since 1913. [1] O'Connell's mother, Tina Curl, moved to Lake Luzerne, New York after her daughter's death.
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 ...
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 ...