death penalty

An inmate on Death Row at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls has lost an appeal to the nation's highest court. Attorney General Marty Jackley says the US Supreme Court has rejected Charles Russell Rhines' appeal of state court orders of his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence...

SIOUX FALLS - An attorney for an Alaska man facing the death penalty in South Dakota says Briley Piper should've been able to withdraw his guilty plea because of bad attorney advice not corrected by a judge.

The South Dakota Supreme Court has overturned a state prison inmate's death sentence for the killing of a prison guard nearly two years ago.

A former South Florida police officer is scheduled to be executed for killing nine people in 1986. The lethal injection of Manuel Pardo, 56, is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison unless he wins an appeal.

The South Dakota Department of Corrections says 60-year old Donald Moeller is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening (October 30th) at 10pm. Moeller was convicted in the 1990 killing of nine-year old Becky O'Connell . Authorities say Moeller kidnapped O'Connell from a convenience store, drove her to a secluded area near the Big Sioux River where he raped and killed her...