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Selection began Wednesday in a Sioux Falls courtroom for jurors who will decide the fate of confessed killer James McVay. The state is seeking the death…
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A proposal to repeal the death penalty in South Dakota narrowly failed Friday morning in committee. Members of House State Affairs heard testimony and…
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The U-S Supreme Court has denied an appeal request from South Dakota Death Row inmate Charles Russell Rhines. Justices refused to hear Rhines appeals…
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With the 2014 legislative session underway, many lawmakers are getting their own agendas and goals organized. Republican State Representative Brock…
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Briley Piper’s guilty plea in the killing of Chester Allan Poage stands. The South Dakota Supreme Court says Piper can’t take back his admission that he…
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A Minnehaha County judge says a confessed murderer won’t have a jury when he’s re-sentenced for the killing of a corrections officer. Rodney Berget admits…
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A South Dakota death row inmate wants a jury to hear his case, and it’s up to the South Dakota Supreme Court to decide if he gets a new trial. The high…
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Tuesday, groups of people in favor of and opposed to capital punishment peacefully demonstrated outside the South Dakota State Penitentiary. That night,…
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A federal judge won't stay the execution of a confessed child killer who's scheduled to die next week. A woman who knows death row inmate Donald Moeller…
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South Dakota lawyers argue whether a death row inmate’s lethal injection should happen next week. Donald Moeller got his final appeal dismissed earlier…