One of the first times Juliet Yackel met with Rodney Berget at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, he shared something startling about his childhood. “He told me he had been in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Rodney Berget, a man convicted of killing a prison guard in a foiled escape from the South Dakota State Penitentiary, was executed by lethal injection Monday afternoon ...

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 pipe during an attempted escape.

Rodney Berget, 56, received a lethal injection of ... who was beaten with a pipe and had his head covered in plastic wrap at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.

Rodney Berget was executed by lethal injection Monday ... who argued that Berget is intellectually disabled. The South Dakota Supreme Court earlier denied a motion from Yackel arguing that Berget ...

Rodney Berget was sentenced to death for killing a prison guard while trying to escape from a South Dakota prison. In this image: A drop of liquid is released from a syringe Melbourne, Australia ...

Ms Yackel told Reuters afterwards: "Today the state of South Dakota violated the US Constitution when it executed Rodney Berget. "Rodney is someone who the state itself deemed intellectually ...

Less than three months later, Rodney Berget, then 25 and serving time for grand theft and escape, joined five other inmates in breaking out of the South Dakota prison. Rodney Berget was released ...

Rodney Berget was sentenced to death for murdering ... An attorney claimed that the state of South Dakota violated the constitution by executing Mr Berget, as the he was intellectually disabled.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – 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 pipe ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — 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 pipe ...