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• "The law has spoken," Moeller said at an Oct. 4 hearing. "I killed. I deserve to be killed."
• Moeller initially was convicted in 1992, but the state Supreme Court overturned it, ruling that improper evidence was used at trial. He was again convicted and sentenced to die in 1997.
• The state Supreme Court affirmed the sentence, and Moeller lost appeals on both the state and federal levels.
• But even as Moeller has insisted he's ready to die, a flurry of motions have been filed on his behalf to stop the execution over his protests.
• Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed a pending suit challenging South Dakota's execution protocol after Moeller insisted he wanted no part of it. Moeller also distanced himself from a motion filed by a woman with loose family ties who argued that his decades in solitary confinement have made him incapable of voluntarily accepting his fate.
• South Dakota has carried out death sentences just three times since the 1913 hanging of Joseph Rickman for the murder of a woman and her daughter.
• George Sitts was electrocuted in 1947 for killing two law enforcement officers, and Elijah Page died by lethal injection in 2007 for the murder of Chester Allan Poage.
• On Oct. 15, Eric Robert was put to death for killing South Dakota prison guard Ronald "R.J." Johnson during a failed escape attempt.
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