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Inmate breaks window at Rapid City courthouse
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities in Rapid City say a 21-year-old inmate in full restraints broke a window and resisted a sheriff's deputy Friday after his sentencing.
• The Pennington County Sheriff's Office says John Shaw Jr. was transported to a Rapid City hospital for injuries sustained from breaking the window.
• A deputy was transporting Shaw from a court hearing on the first floor of the courthouse Friday morning when he broke a window in the corridor as he departed the courtroom.
• Police say that several other people became involved in the disturbance and two others were arrested.
• No other injuries were reported.
• Shaw was being sentenced on charges of aggravated assault, discharge of a firearm at a structure or vehicle, reckless discharge of a firearm while intoxicated and grand theft.
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Judge to hear arguments on SD execution protocol
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A federal judge will hear arguments next week on whether South Dakota's one-drug capital punishment procedure is constitutional.
• Attorneys who represent convicted killer Donald Moeller, who is scheduled to be executed in late October or early November, contend that the method that will likely use pentobarbital violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
• Moeller has said in state court that he's ready to accept death as the consequence of the 1990 killing of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. And U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Piersol has upheld the constitutionality of Moeller's conviction and sentence, but he has yet to rule in the 2004 case on South Dakota's execution protocol.
• Piersol is scheduled to view the South Dakota State Penitentiary's execution chamber Thursday morning before a 1:30 p.m. hearing in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls.
• South Dakota has two execution drugs in its inventory, sodium thiopental and pentobarbital, but its supply of sodium thiopental expires in September, said Attorney General Marty Jackley.
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