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• Robert pleaded guilty to the April 2011 beating and suffocation of prison guard Ronald "R.J." Johnson, for whom the prison's training center is now named.
• Robert, 50, has publicly embraced his impending death, telling a judge last October that he would kill again. In a June letter to The Associated Press, Robert repeated the sentiment, saying the state should put him to death so Johnson's family can have justice.
• Donald Moeller, 60, is expected to be put to death in the week beginning Oct. 28. Moeller was convicted in the 1990 kidnapping, rape and murder of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell.
• Moeller's last legal hurdle lies with a federal judge who's been asked to determine whether the state's one-drug capital punishment procedure is constitutional.
• Moeller's federal attorneys, in a July filing, said they were seeking information on how the state is obtaining its supply of pentobarbital, whether it's from an FDA-approved company, how the drug is stored and how it's delivered. A decision in that case is pending, but Moeller last week told U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Piersol that he wants to die.
• "I killed. I deserve to be killed," he said in court.
• Moeller on Tuesday wrote Piersol a letter from prison asking that the case be dismissed. Moeller's attorneys say he's incompetent and incapable of making voluntary and rational decisions and want to press forward with arguments in the case.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's row crop harvest advanced again last week with the soybean harvest nearing completion.
• The U.S. Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop and weather report that light showers teased parts of the state over the weekend but make no significant dent in the growing season precipitation deficits.
• Precipitation was fairly widespread but totals were fairly limited. Topsoil moisture is rated at 5 percent adequate, 18 percent short and 77 percent very short.
• The corn for grain harvest is 78 percent complete and the soybean harvest is 94 percent complete. Both are ahead of the five-year averages.
• Cattle conditions are rated at 65 percent good to excellent, 30 percent fair and 5 percent poor.
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