Paul Swedlund

The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence of Jonathon Klinetobe, the Rapid City man who enlisted two other men to murder his…

The South Dakota Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the conviction of the state's last death-row inmate.Briley Piper has been appealing his death…

The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the 2007 conviction of an inmate convicted of murdering his wife in Pierre in February 2006.Brad Reay says his…

The execution date for South Dakota inmate Charles Rhines is set for the week of Nov. 3. The warden will announce an exact day and time 48 hours ahead of…

In 2014 the warden at the South Dakota State Penitentiary enacted a more stringent policy restricting access to obscene materials.Inmate Charles Sisney…

Annie Mae Aquash was found dead on the Pine Ridge Reservation in February 1976, killed by a bullet to the back of her head, but no one was charged with…

An inmate on death row for nearly 25 years has argued to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that his lawyers did not adequately represent him.Charles…

The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of Joseph Patterson. He was convicted in 2015 of killing the two-year-old son of Ashley…

Russell Ray Bertram was convicted of first-degree murder in 2016. A jury found that he intentionally killed his girlfriend with a shotgun while they were…

A Second Circuit judge ruled earlier this year that a newly constructed house in the McKennan Park Historic District of Sioux Falls has to be remodeled or…