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thing about the process that bothers a lot of people.
• Perhaps it's the clinical nature of the execution process. Walking someone down a hall to an enclosed room; laying them down on a gurney and strapping them to it, and inserting the needle -- or needles -- into the condemned man's arm to administer a lethal dose of a controlled substance. Outside the room are witnesses selected

to watch the execution. They are there for a variety of reasons; either to cover the story for the media, to see justice done for the victim's family or to make sure the proper rules and protocols are followed. It's a precise process and something Robert and Moeller both want to happen.
• And yet many of us wonder, both supporters and opponents of the death penalty. The guilty are gone and so are the victims yet the grief the crimes caused still lingers. Nothing will ever bring the dead back or completely eliminate the grief. Those are absolutes that cannot be changed.
• But many people wonder if events like South Dakota will experience in the next

few weeks will have an impact other than on those involved. Will anything really change? Will crimes like these become obsolete??Will the deaths of these two deter others from committing similar crimes? In the end we may not get whatever answers we are seeking but the questions raised are worth thinking about. Like everything else in the death penalty, it's all part of the process.
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• The Daily Republic, Mitchell. Oct. 9, 2012
• If not in rural SD, where?
• Aurora County is on the hook for a $1.2 million payout to farmers who say the county inappropriately thwarted their efforts to expand their dairy business.
• In Hanson County, residents this year successfully stalled a planned dairy that would have been built north of Alexandria.
• Things sure have changed in the world of agriculture, and we're just not sure where we stand as 21st century farming gets under way.
• We are certain of one thing: Big ag business on the great and heretofore wide open prairies could be in trouble.
• In Aurora County, the farmers -- members of the Thompson family -- claimed successfully that a 1998 zoning ordinance adopted by the county and the county's later 2001 denial of a building permit inappropriately prohibited their business plans.
• Recently, the settlement amount was reached, and Aurora County taxpayers -- not the insurance company, thanks to county officials' failure to provide timely notice of the litigation -- will pay the settlement through the aid of bonds.
• In Hanson County, backers of a controversial dairy pulled back their request for a

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