A transcript from the recent execution of a South Dakota inmate who killed a prison guard shows the inmate asking after the lethal injection: “Is it supposed to feel like that?” Corrections officials released a transcript Tuesday from the Oct. 29 execu… Continue reading →
{FD} South Dakota jury clears ex-nonprofit CEO in contracts case
A South Dakota jury cleared a former nonprofit executive accused of backdating contracts to try to avoid a potential audit in a case sparked after the organization’s financial officer killed his family and himself in 2015. Continue reading →
{FD} South Dakota declines to reveal drug to be used in execution
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 killing a prison guard. Continue reading →
{FD} South Dakota sets execution for man in prison guard’s death
A man who pleaded guilty to the 2011 killing of a South Dakota prison guard is set to be executed in the fall, the state’s attorney general said Wednesday. Continue reading →
