Governor Dennis Daugaard offered a gift this holiday season to some inmates in the state Corrections system. Daugaard granted executive clemency to two inmates who committeed crimes in the area and offered sentence commutations to a number of others. Brock Antijunti had three D-U-I’s one felony two misdemeanors pardoned. The crimes occured in Hand, Stanley and Hughes counties in August and December of 1996 and March of 1999. Walter Rodney was pardoned of his crime, distribution of a controlled substance. He was sentenced in Beadle County on that charge on September 27th of 1984. Daugaard also commuted the sentences of 13 state prison inmates in 30, 60 and 90 day segments. Three inmates were sentenced in Spink and Kingbury Counties. The remaining seven were convicted in Beadle County. A list of the sentence commutations is posted below: Order County, days of sentence reduction, name
- Beadle 60 Sarah Brooks
- Beadle 60 Crystal Christensen
- Beadle 60 Crystal Christensen
- Beadle 60 Frank Dame
- Beadle 60 Benjamin Renner
- Beadle 60 Kathy Stahl
- Beadle 30 Vera Capers
- Beadle 30 Rick Hofer
- Beadle 30 David Neiffer
- Kingsbury 30 Karen Armstrong
- Kingsbury 30 Tony Janssen
- Kingsbury 30 Norman Waters, Jr
- Spink 30 Issac Brown
- Spink 30 Mark Heirmeier
- Spink 90 Rober Johnson