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South Dakota Legislature to Debate Repeal Today

By Steve Hall

"Bill Would Repeal South Dakota's Death Penalty," is the title of a KSFY-TV report by Jim Nelson.Thursday morning, state lawmakers will discuss a bill to eliminate the death penalty in South Dakota. Capital punishment was re-introduced to South Dakota by Governor Bill Janklow in 1979. In the three decades since Governor Janklow signed that bill to re-introduce the death penalty, just one person has been executed in South Dakota. Elijah Page was executed in 2007. Three inmates at the prison in Sioux Falls are currently on death row. The basics of House Bill 1245 will be debated in Pierre starting Thursday morning. It calls for repealing the death penalty and replacing it with life in prison. Those who are currently on death row for a class A felony would have their sentence changed to life in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 18, 2010 (boomark / email).