Death sentence weighed for S. Dakota murder suspect
May 7, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. Prosecutors will decide within a week whether to seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a Mitchell woman in March. Assistant Attorney General Bob Mayer, who participated Tuesday in a hearing at the Brule County Courthouse in Chamberlain, is involved in the decision regarding the sentence sought for Kent Davidson. Continue Reading
A man accused of murdering the mother of his child last year in Belfield will be bound over for trial.
A Jamestown man faces up to life in prison without parole after a jury found him guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy Thursday in Southeast District Court.
Jurors deliberated much of Wednesday without returning a verdict in the Leron Howard murder trial in Southeast District Court in Jamestown.
Leron Lee Howard admitted Tuesday to striking Abdi Ali Ahmed twice on the head in the early morning hours of April 30, 2011. Ahmed’s body was found about noon that day in a road ditch near Spiritwood.
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