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Capital Punishment In South Dakota
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of November 2019, five condemned, all white males, have been executed since capital punishment was reinstated in the state in 1979; two of those cases were prisoners who waived their normal appeals and chose to be put to death. Legal process When the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous. In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, a life sentence is issued, even if a single juror opposed death (there is no retrial). The governor has the power of clemency with respect to death sentences. Death row is located at the South Dakota State Penitentiary located in Sioux Falls. Lethal injection is the only method of execution provided by statutes. Capital crimes First-degree murder is a Class A Felony in South Dakota, punishable by death or life imprisonment without parole. It is the only Class A Felony in the state and can be punish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment. The sentence ordering that an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is ''condemned'' and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Crimes that are punishable by death are known as ''capital crimes'', ''capital offences'', or ''capital felonies'', and vary depending on the jurisdiction, but commonly include serious crimes against the person, such as murder, mass murder, aggravated cases of rape (often including child sexual abuse), terrorism, aircraft hijacking, war crimes, crimes against h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Production Board
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and the Office of Production Management. The WPB directed conversion of companies engaged in activities relevant to war from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production. It rationed such commodities as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, paper, and plastics. It was dissolved shortly after the Surrender of Japan, defeat of Japan in 1945 and was replaced by the Civilian Production Administration in late 1945. In 1942–1945, WPB supervised the production of $183 billion (equivalent to $ in ) worth of weapons and supplies, about 40 percent of the world output of munitions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment In South Dakota
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of November 2019, five condemned, all white males, have been executed since capital punishment was reinstated in the state in 1979; two of those cases were prisoners who waived their normal appeals and chose to be put to death. Legal process When the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous. In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, a life sentence is issued, even if a single juror opposed death (there is no retrial). The governor has the power of clemency with respect to death sentences. Death row is located at the South Dakota State Penitentiary located in Sioux Falls. Lethal injection is the only method of execution provided by statutes. Capital crimes First-degree murder is a Class A Felony in South Dakota, punishable by death or life imprisonment without parole. It is the only Class A Felony in the state and can be punish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime In South Dakota
South Dakota, a state in the Midwestern United States, generally has a lower crime rate than the national average. However, crime rates vary within the state, with some rural areas having much lower rates than in the Sioux Falls or Rapid City areas. Overall crime rates in South Dakota have been relatively stable in recent years. Types of crime In 2020, the violent crime rate in South Dakota was 297.2 per 100,000 people, compared to the national average of 366.7 per 100,000 people. Aggravated assault was the most common violent crime, followed by robbery and rape. The property crime rate in South Dakota was 1,907.5 per 100,000 people, compared to the national average of 2,109.9 per 100,000 people. Larceny-theft was the most common property crime, followed by burglary and motor vehicle theft. Law enforcement South Dakota's law enforcement landscape features several layers. At the state level, the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation spearheads major crime investigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Death Row Inmates In The United States
, there were 2,414 death row inmates in the United States. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions, the information in this article may present inaccuracies. Demographics Ethnicity of defendants on death row *White: 1,023 (42.38%) *African-American: 986 (40.85%) *Hispanic: 335 (13.88%) *Asian: 46 (1.91%) *Native American: 24 (0.99%) Gender of defendants on death row *Male: 2,364 (97.93%) *Female: 50 (2.07%) Comparatively, 50.8% of the U.S. population is female, and 49.2% is male (USCB 2018). Education * 69.75% have less than a high school diploma or GED. Comparatively, 12.19% of U.S. adults have less than a high school diploma or GED. Mental illness * It has been estimated that over 10% of death row inmates have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People Executed In South Dakota
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Dakota from 1877 to date. A total of 20 people have been executed in South Dakota since 1877. Prior to 1915, the sole method of execution was via hanging. South Dakota banned the death penalty in 1915, but it was reinstated in 1939. The method of execution was then changed to electrocution. Capital punishment was reinstated in South Dakota in 1979 following the U.S. Supreme Court decision of ''Gregg v. Georgia''. The method of execution was changed from electrocution to lethal injection in 1984. Since 1979, a total of 5 people have been executed, all by lethal injection. List of people executed in South Dakota See also * Capital punishment in South Dakota * Capital punishment in the United States Notes References {{CapPun-US South Dakota Executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. The AP has earned 56 Pulitzer Prizes, including 34 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. It is also known for publishing the widely used '' AP Stylebook''. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The AP operates 248 news bureaus in 99 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Execution Of Charles Rhines
The execution of Charles Rhines occurred on November 4, 2019, at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Rhines was executed for the 1992 murder of Donnivan Schaefer, whom he killed during a burglary at a doughnut shop in Rapid City. His execution generated attention due to claims that the jury had sentenced him to death because he was gay and that his death sentence was tainted by anti-gay bias. Rhines remains the most recent person executed in South Dakota. Background Early life Charles Russell Rhines was born on July 11, 1956, in McLaughlin, South Dakota, the last of four children born to Richard and Ruth Rhines. Rhines attended McLaughlin Public School but dropped out in his sophomore year. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and served three years as an infantryman, earning his high school General Equivalency Degree. He went on to study at the University of South Dakota in Springfield for vocational training. However, he never completed the course as he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Chester Poage
Chester Allan Poage (July 4, 1980 – March 13, 2000) was an American man who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by three men in Spearfish, South Dakota, on March 13, 2000. Elijah Page, Briley Piper, and Darrell Hoadley were convicted of the torture and murder of Poage. Page and Piper were sentenced to death, while Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison. Page was executed by lethal injection on July 11, 2007, becoming the first person to be executed in South Dakota since 1947. Piper remains on death row, and is the only person left on death row in South Dakota. Background Chester Allan Poage was born on July 4, 1980, in Norton County, Kansas. He grew up on a farm just outside Norton, but moved with his family to Rapid City, South Dakota in 1994. In 1996, his father committed suicide, just days after his parents had filed for divorce. The family moved back to Norton, but later moved to Spearfish, South Dakota while Poage was at college. Prior to his death, Poage was attending N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Janklow
William John Janklow (September 13, 1939January 12, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician and member of the Republican Party who holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota: sixteen years in office. Janklow had the third-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,851 days. Janklow served as the 25th Attorney General of South Dakota from 1975 to 1979 before serving as the state's 27th Governor from 1979 to 1987 and then the 30th Governor from 1995 to 2003. Janklow was then elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served for a little more than a year. He resigned in 2004 after being convicted of manslaughter for his culpability in a fatal automobile crash. Early life, education, and military service Janklow was born in Chicago, Illinois. When Janklow was 10 years old his father died of a heart attack while working as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. His mother moved the family back to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sitts
George Sidney Sitts (October 29, 1913 – April 8, 1947) was a convicted murderer who was executed by South Dakota for killing state Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Tom Matthews, who was attempting to arrest Sitts on a fugitive warrant from Minnesota. Sitts was the only person to die in South Dakota's electric chair, and it would be over 60 years until the next time South Dakota would carry out an execution — Elijah Page via lethal injection on July 11, 2007. Sitts, who escaped from prison while serving a life sentence for murder, also shot and killed Butte County Sheriff Dave Malcolm near Spearfish, on January 24, 1946. Sitts had pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Minnesota for the December 12, 1945, slaying of Erik Johansson, a liquor store clerk, during a botched robbery. After spending three weeks sawing on the bars of his cell in the Minneapolis city jail, Sitts and three other men broke out the day before Sitts was scheduled to be transferred to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stateville Correctional Center
Stateville Correctional Center (SCC) is a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, United States, near Chicago. It is a part of the Illinois Department of Corrections. History Opened in 1925, Stateville was built to accommodate 1,506 inmates. Parts of the prison were designed according to the panopticon concept proposed by the British philosopher and prison reformer, Jeremy Bentham. Stateville's "F-House" cellhouse, commonly known as a "roundhouse", has a panopticon layout which features an armed tower in the center of an open area surrounded by several tiers of cells. F-House was the only remaining "roundhouse" still in use in the United States in the 1990s. It was closed in late 2016 but the structure will remain standing due to its historical significance. A duplicate of the prison, the Presidio Modelo, opened in Cuba in 1936, but has since been abandoned. Includes photo of the roadhouse In 2009 a 40-year-old man from Chicago, Richard Conner, murde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
