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derBrucer, it still has not warmed up yet in ND...WE had -28 Wednesday morning...
At what point does Hell freeze over?It's 16 here - and that's friggin chilly!der Brucer
They just sentenced Alfonso Rodriguez here in FArgo earlier today. He is sentenced to death by lethal injection ...
Bet he'll still be alive in 20 years!der BrucerDid you know that the life expectancy for prisoners on death row is greater than for the general prison population?
derBrucer, what do you like to snack on?
The Rodriguez case was North Dakota's first death penalty case in about 100 years. Although North Dakota state courts do not have the death penalty, it is available in the federal system. Rodriguez's trial was held in U.S. District Court in Fargo.
While more inmates were executed in the United States in 1999 than in any other year since the early 1950s, the last legal execution in North Dakota took place in 1905. Apparently, more people have been lynched here than have been legally executed.
Those sound good. I also like chocolate especially dark chocolate.Do you like dark chocolate?
Well, this was sneaky!Bismarck TribuneAnd:der Brucer
ND has a notorious record of lynching...
According to historian Frank E. Vyzralek, only one legal execution took place in the northern half of Dakota Territory—in Grand Forks in 1885. Seven legal executions took place after statehood. The last one—John Rooney in 1905—was the first to take place inside the prison walls at Bismarck. Previous executions had taken place in the counties, usually next to the courthouse.According to Vyzralek, three lynchings took place in the northern half of Dakota Territory, and six took place in North Dakota after statehood. The last lynching was in McKenzie County in 1931.The only triple lynching took place in Emmons County in 1897, and according to Vyzralek, it followed the North Dakota Supreme Court's reversal of the conviction of one of the three.