South Dakota can’t work up the courage to eliminate the costly and ineffective death penalty. The latest Legislative effort to stop inflating our machismo by…
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In the latest effort to delay his execution, death row inmate Charles Russell Rhines is asking the court to let him choose the drug that…
South Dakota is going to kill a man this afternoon. You and I, through our government, are going to kill a man tonight, a vile…
The first death penalty bill hit the hopper yesterday. House Bill 1077, brought to us by Rep. Dan Ahlers (D-25/Dell Rapids) mostly modifies the language…
Aberdeen’s Pax Christi will host a discussion of the death penalty this evening at 7 p.m. at the Presentation Convent here in Aberdeen. Dennis Davis,…
Today’s juxtaposition of South Dakota “pro-life” attitudes: In Brown County, following an incident in which a man brought a garden shovel into the courthouse and…
Perhaps our American Indian friends can bring some civilization to the white man: American Indian tribes for decades have been able to tell federal prosecutors…
At an August 2 budget work session, Commissioners Ron Buskerud and Mark DiSanto “joked” and laughed about wishing we could just take criminals out back…
I may not win South Dakota Right to Life’s endorsement, but at least they find me more interesting than my opponent in the District 3 Senate race.…
Mike Rounds gets a statue of himself and a hunting dog in Pierre this year. That will be appropriate, since visitors will be able to drive…