PIERRE, (KCCR) — A South Dakota Senate Committee has defeated a bill to get rid of the future use of the death penalty in South Dakota. Denny Davis is Director of South Dakotans For Alternatives To The Death Penalty. He says the death penalty makes the state no better than the criminal…
Attorney General Marty Jackley testified against Senate Bill 109 saying the death penalty is a true life sentence as life sentences are not…
Senator Jim Mehlhaff of Pierre serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee and voted for repealing death as punishment in South Dakota…
Mehlhaff was joined by Senators Micheal Rohl of Aberdeen and Helene Duhamel of Rapid City in voting against the motion to send S-B 109 to the 41st legislative day. The final vote was four-to-three.
