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Monday, 06 February 2012 07:42 |
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) _ A judge is expected to decide Monday
morning whether an inmate who admitted he killed a South Dakota
prison guard should be put to death for the crime.
Forty-nine-year-old Rodney Berget pleaded guilty to killing
63-year-old Ronald Johnson during a failed prison escape April 12.
On Thursday, Berget told Judge Bradley Zell that he believes he
should put sentenced to death for the slaying.
Johnson had been called in to work on his birthday the day he
died.
Zell already sentenced Berget's confessed cohort and fellow
inmate Eric Robert to death. The men beat Johnson and wrapped
plastic around his head, then stole his uniform in hopes of
slipping past other guards.
Both Berget and Robert chose to let the judge decide if they
should receive the death penalty.
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