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Oct 15 (Reuters) – South Dakota executed convicted killer
Eric Robert on Monday night by lethal injection for the April
2011 killing of a guard during a failed escape attempt at the
state prison in Sioux Falls, a corrections department spokesman
said.
Robert, 50, was pronounced dead at 10:24 p.m. Central Time,
the department said.
The execution was South Dakota’s first since 2007 and only
the third since 1913. It was the 32nd execution in the United
States this year, according to the Death Penalty Information
Center.
(Reporting by David Bailey in Minneapolis; Editing by Eric
Walsh)
