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• After attacking Johnson, Robert and Berget made it outside one gate. But they were stopped by another guard before they could complete their escape through the second gate. Both pleaded guilty.
• In a statement to a judge, Rodney acknowledged he deserved to die.
• "I knew what I was doing, and I continued to do it," Berget said. "I destroyed a family. I took away a father, a husband, a grandpa."
• His execution, scheduled for September, is likely to be delayed to allow the State Supreme Court time to conduct a mandatory review.
• Rodney Berget's lawyer, Jeff Larson, has declined to comment on the case outside of court. Rodney did not respond to letters sent to the penitentiary.
• The few members of the Berget family who survive are reluctant to talk about

how seemingly normal boys turned into petty criminals and then into convicted killers of the rarest kind: brothers sentenced to death.
• Dieter, of the Death Penalty Information Center, said some families of the condemned remain involved in appeals. But others see no reason to preserve connections.
• "There's no light at the end of it," he said. "What happens at the end is execution."
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