The Latest: Lawyer seeks to halt South Dakota execution
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Latest on the planned execution of South Dakota inmate Rodney Berget (all times local):
11:55 a.m.
A lawyer who unsuccessfully asked South Dakota’s highest court to stop the death sentence of a man who killed a prison guard has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution.
Rodney Berget is to be put to death at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Attorney Juliet Yackel says in the U.S. Supreme Court filing that Berget is intellectually disabled and therefore ine
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