On January 30, Republican Rep. Steve Hickey and Democratic Senator Billie Sutton introduced House Bill 1183, to remove death from the sentences South Dakota can mete out for crimes. Two weeks later, HB 1183 has received nothing but first reading.…
Posts tagged as “capital punishment”
Thanks to the misguided charity and self-righteous bloodlust of others, Tina Curl is in Sioux Falls to carry out the useless theater of watching the state kill an evil man. He watched her die and I am going to watch…
Lynette Johnson, wife of slain South Dakota Penitentiary guard Ronald Johnson, spoke publicly last night after the execution of one of her husband's kjillers: And while time may heal wounds, Lynette Johnson says this one is very deep and that…
We the people of South Dakota will kill a restrained, unarmed man tonight. At 10 p.m. in Sioux Falls, we will stick poison in a killer's veins and watch him die. You know I find the death penalty a moral…
KSFY reports the sad story of Tina Curl, who is so desperate to witness the execution of her daughter's killer that she's begging people for money to make the trip. Donald Moeller killed her nine-year-old daughter Becky O'Connell in 1990.…
Last week, the South Dakota Supreme Court cleared the way for the state to execute convicted killer Eric Robert. The Supreme Court reviewed the death sentence against the condemned man's wishes; even though Robert wants to die as fast as…
Confessed killer Eric Robert is trying to hold South Dakota hostage. During his sentencing hearing before Judge Bradley Zell yesterday, Robert threatened to kill another man and tried to shift the blame to us: He also told Zell that failure…
The two prisoners who killed South Dakota penitentiary guard Ron Johnson stretch my opposition to the death penalty to the breaking point. (I won't do them the legal courtesy of declaring their crime "alleged.") They are dangerous and seemingly incorrigible.…