Murder of Ronald Johnson

On April 12, 2011, at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, 63-year-old corrections officer Ronald Johnson was attacked and murdered by two inmates who were in the midst of a prison escape. They were later apprehended by other correctional officers while attempting to disguise themselves. The two prisoners, Eric Robert and Rodney Berget, were charged with murdering Johnson and were sentenced to death by the courts of South Dakota. Robert, who waived his right to appeal, was executed on October 15, 2012, while Berget, whose brother was sentenced to death in Oklahoma in 1987, was executed six years later on October 29, 2018, after also ending his appeals. A third prisoner, Michael Nordman, who provided the murder weapons, was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to his role in the murder. Provided by Wikipedia