Murder of Ronald Johnson

On April 12, 2011, in South Dakota State Penitentiary, 63-year-old corrections officer Ronald Johnson was attacked and murdered by two inmates who were in midst of a prison escape attempt, and they were later caught by other prison officers while trying to disguise themselves. The two prisoners, Eric Robert and Rodney Berget, were charged with murdering Johnson and sentenced to death by the courts of South Dakota. Robert, who waived his right to appeal, was executed on October 15, 2012, while Berget, whose brother was sentenced to death in Oklahoma in 1987, was executed six years later on October 29, 2018, after failing his appeals to overturn the death sentence. A third prisoner, Michael Nordman, who provided the murder weapons to the pair, was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to his role behind the murder. Provided by Wikipedia