List of people executed in South Dakota

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Dakota since 1976. Capital punishment was reinstated in South Dakota in 1979 following the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia. The method of execution was changed from electrocution to lethal injection in 1984. Since 1979, a total of 5 people have been executed, all by lethal injection. With the exception of Charles Rhines, all of them had waived their appeals.

List of people executed in South Dakota since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Elijah Page	White	25	M	July 11, 2007	Lawrence	Lethal injection	Chester Allan Poage	Mike Rounds
2	Eric Donald Robert	White	50	M	October 15, 2012	Minnehaha		Correctional Officer Ronald Johnson	Dennis Daugaard
3	Donald Eugene Moeller	White	60	M	October 30, 2012	Lincoln		Becky O'Connell
4	Rodney Scott Berget	White	56	M	October 29, 2018	Minnehaha		Correctional Officer Ronald Johnson
5	Charles Russell Rhines	White	63	M	November 4, 2019	Pennington		Donnivan Schaeffer	Kristi Noem

Demographics

Race
White	5	100%
Age
20–29	1	20%
30–39	0	0%
40–49	0	0%
50–59	2	40%
60–69	2	40%
Sex
Male	5	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	0	0%
2000–2009	1	20%
2010–2019	4	80%
2020–2029	0	0%
Method
Lethal injection	5	100%
Governor (Party)
Richard F. Kneip (D)	0	0%
Harvey Wollman (D)	0	0%
Bill Janklow (R)	0	0%
George S. Mickelson (R)	0	0%
Walter Dale Miller (R)	0	0%
Mike Rounds (R)	1	20%
Dennis Daugaard (R)	3	60%
Kristi Noem (R)	1	20%
Larry Rhoden (R)	0	0%
Total	5	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in South Dakota
• Capital punishment in the United States
• List of people executed in South Dakota (pre-1972)