04-11-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com

South Dakota execution waits for Supreme Court action

A man who stabbed to death a former co-worker who interrupted him during a burglary is set to be executed Monday in South Dakota barring a last-minute stay.Charles Russell Rhines brushed off a plea for mercy from 22-year-old Donnivan Schaeffer in the 1992 slaying at a Rapid City doughnut shop.Now 63, Rhines last week unsuccessfully challenged the drug the state plans to use in the execution at the state prison in Sioux Falls.
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