South Dakota to execute inmate on Monday for guard’s slaying

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota has set Monday as the execution date for an inmate convicted of killing a prison guard.
Rodney Berget is one of two inmates convicted in the 2011 killing of guard Ronald Johnson during a failed escape attempt at the state prison in Sioux Falls. The other inmate, Eric Robert was executed by lethal injection in 2012.
The inmates beat Johnson with a pipe and wrapped his head in plastic.
The 56-year-old Berget was serving a life sentence for attempted murder an