Repeal Of Death Penalty Halted In Committee

legislatureSouth Dakota’s death penalty is alive one more year. A legislative committee defeated a measure Wednesday that would have removed execution as a possible punishment for violent crime in South Dakota. Senator Arthur Rusch, a former judge says capital murder cases take an emotional toll so much he once hired mental help professionals to work with jury members involved in a case he had…

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Attorney General Marty Jackley told members of the Senate State Affairs Committee the death penalty is for some individuals the only sentence that’s fits….

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Former Attorney General Mark Meierhenry during his rebuttal, encouraged lawmakers to send the bill to the full Senate for consideration…

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Repeal of the death penalty in South Dakota was defeated on a seven-two vote.