Execution

Death row inmate Charles Russell Rhines was executed by lethal injection at 7:39 Monday night. There was a six hour delay waiting for the US Supreme Court…

In The Moment ... October 28, 2019 Show 688 Hour 2Dennis Davis is a spokesman for South Dakotans for an Alternative to the Death Penalty. Davis visits…

In The Moment ... October 28, 2019 Show 688 Hour 2The Cornell Death Penalty Project is dedicated to neutral examinations of how the death penalty…

In The Moment ... October 28, 2019 Show 688 Hour 2South Dakota death row inmate Charles Rhines has exhausted his direct appeals in court and is scheduled…

In The Moment ... November 29, 2018 Show 469 Hour 2John Biewen grew up in Mankato, Minnesota. He says nobody ever talked about the most important…

South Dakota inmate Rodney Berget was executed Monday, October 29, 2018, for the murder of prison guard Ronald "RJ" Johnson in April of 2011. Berget, 56,…

After a nearly six-hour delay, Rodney Berget was executed Monday for his role in the 2011 murder of correction officer Ron “RJ” Johnson at the state…

The state is setting the time and date of execution for Rodney Berget, an inmate accused of killing a South Dakota prison guard.Berget’s execution is set…

A bill to end the death penalty in South Dakota failed in the state legislature. State Senator Art Rusch, who spent many years as a prosecutor and circuit…

Convicted child killer Donald Moeller is set to die by lethal injection at 10:00 tonight. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the latest request…