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~ Charles Rhines, 04Nov19, (SD) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: October 16, 2019, 11:15 am
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Charles Rhines deserves his upcoming fate--
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Doug Weber, the former state prison warden who carried out all
three of the state’s recent executions, oversaw Rhines for
years. The former warden sees the inmate as a master manipulator
whose attitude and behavior align with the jury’s sentence.
“I don’t think, if he’d been serving a life sentence, that he’d
have been out of administrative segregation,” Weber said. “He’s
an extremely intelligent, but an extremely dangerous
individual.”
Heather Shepard, who was 16 years old when Rhines threatened to
kill her to stop her from revealing what she knew about the
unsolved murder, puts it more bluntly.
“He should have been dead 15 years ago,” she said. “Justice has
not been swift.”
Steve Allender, now the Rapid City Police Chief, spent months
tracking the killer before Rhines was captured in Seattle.
“It was evil. I’ve been in this business for 30 years, and the
only nightmare I’ve ever had about police work was about him,”
Allender said. “I feared him to a great extent.”
Donnivan Schaeffer was working as a courier March 8, 1992. He
was picking up supplies from Dig ’Em Donuts as Rhines, a former
shop employee, was rooting though an office desk for cash.
Schaeffer walked into the office, and Rhines sprung upon him
with a hunting knife, stabbing him twice.
The young man pleaded, begging Rhines to take him to the
hospital as he was lead into a storeroom and sat on a wooden
pallet.
“ ‘Yeah, right, Donnivan. I’m going to call you an ambulance.
You bet,’ ” Allender recalls Rhines saying.
Instead, the two-time felon leaned his victim forward on the
pallet, applied the hunting knife to the back of his neck and
shoved it into his skull.
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Re: ~ Charles Rhines, 04Nov19, (SD) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: October 28, 2019, 8:33 pm
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South Dakota asks court to let execution proceed--
Monday, October 28, 2019
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The state of South Dakota asked a judge
Monday to reject an inmate's objection to the lethal drug
scheduled for use in his execution.
Charles Russell Rhines is scheduled to die next week for the
1992 fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old doughnut shop worker during
a robbery. Rhines moved last week to block the execution by
arguing that pentobarbital, commonly used to euthanize animals,
doesn't act quickly enough. His lawyers argue that by using the
drug, the state would be violating Rhines' right to choose his
manner of execution and his right to due process.
The state countered that Rhines' argument is based on
pentobarbital's performance in a low-dosage setting, and that it
works quickly enough when given in high doses. The drug has been
used in recent executions in Georgia, Missouri and Texas.
The state also argued that Rhines' objection could have been
brought long ago. A South Dakota circuit court judge is
scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday.
Pentobarbital was used last year when South Dakota executed
Rodney Berget, who killed a prison guard during a 2011 escape
attempt. Berget was pronounced dead 12 minutes after the lethal
injection began, and a transcript released afterward said Berget
asked after the injection was administered: "Is it supposed to
feel like that?" That prompted a national group that studies
capital punishment to call on the state to release more details
about the drug used.
Rhines was sentenced to death for the 1992 killing of Donnivan
Schaeffer, who was stabbed in the skull, stomach and back while
Rhines was burglarizing the Rapid City doughnut shop where
Schaeffer worked.
Rhines lost two other appeals to delay his execution last week.
In those appeals, he argued that he should be able to meet with
mental health experts to prepare a clemency application and that
the state's execution policies don't follow the state's
rule-making requirement. Rhines' attorney did not return a
request for comment.
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Re: ~ Charles Rhines, 04Nov19, (SD) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: November 5, 2019, 2:56 am
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South Dakota Executes Inmate Charles Rhines for Fatal 1992
Stabbing--
Monday, November 4, 2019
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota Death Row Inmate Charles
Russell Rhines has died by lethal injection.
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg confirmed that at
approximately 7:35 p.m., Charles Russell Rhines was given lethal
injections to end his life.
Rhines’ time of death was marked at 7:39 p.m.
Attorney General Ravnsborg released the following statement:
Today I would like to remember Donnivan Scahefer, the victim who
was brutally murdered by the killer who met justice earlier.
Donnivan was an intelligent man set to graduate from Western
Dakota Tech Donnivan was an award-winning archer who loved
hunting and fishing Donnivan was funny, kind and a hard worker,
prepared to start a career with a telephone installation
company. Donnivan was engaged to be married with a great life
ahead of him and, if he was with us today, he would be looking
forward to his 50th birthday and looking at all the things his
life had produced. Words cannot express the sorrow I feel for
the fact that Donnivan was killed but I am glad we were finally
able to get justice for him today. I am hopeful that this day is
an opportunity for the family to move forward and now, that this
phase is over, they can continue to heal. May God Bless Donnivan
and his family.
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied all three of South Dakota
Death Row Inmate Charles Rhines’ appeals, clearing the way for
his execution.
Rhines asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his execution. He
argued that the jury that sentenced him to death had an anti-gay
bias. He also argued that the state hasn’t allowed him to be
examined for cognitive and psychiatric impairments.
Rhines argued that the pentobarbital to be used in his execution
doesn’t meet the “ultra-short-acting” standard for lethal
injection drugs in effect at the time of his conviction.
Rhines was to die by lethal injection at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the
South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
Rhines, 63, was sentenced to the death penalty in 1993. He was
convicted of killing a 22-year-old doughnut shop employee who
interrupted him during a burglary in 1992.
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