This morning, we learned that death row inmate James McVay was found dead in his cell. All signs point to suicide, as Mr. McVay was hanging from a bed sheet.. That makes him the second death row ...

James McVay became the second death row inmate in South Dakota to commit suicide before his sentence could be carried out. Robert Leroy Anderson killed himself in a similar fashion in 2003.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Rodney Berget lives in a single cell on South Dakota's death row, rarely leaving the tiny room where he awaits execution for bludgeoning a prison guard to death with a ...

There are two additional inmates on death row in South Dakota. Briley Piper was also convicted in the kidnapping and murder of Chester Poage. A circuit court judge sentenced him to death, instead ...

Death-row inmate found dead in cell . Joe Kafka, Associated Press Writer ... The remaining men on South Dakota's death row. include Charles Rhines, Donald Moeller, Briley Piper and Elijah Page.

The only inmate on South Dakota’s death row saw his appeal denied by the state Supreme Court, which rejected his claim that he had gotten poor legal advice to plead guilty to murder. Briley ...

The South Dakota killer who argued that his death sentence was unconstitutional because jurors were homophobic is slated to be executed on Monday afternoon, according to authorities. Charles Rhines… ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota is set to execute its first prisoner on death row in five years and only the second in more than six decades. Fifty-year-old Eric Robert is to die by lethal ...

A federal court judge has denied an Alaska man’s petition to appeal his death sentence and he will remain as the only inmate on death row in South Dakota. Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to ...

A death row inmate cracked a joke moments before his execution Monday night in South Dakota, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported. "The warden asked if he had any last words to say and the first ...

A federal court judge has denied an Alaska man’s petition to appeal his death sentence and he will remain as the only inmate on death row in South Dakota. Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to ...