On this date, April 6, 2011,
Correctional Officer Ronald Johnson of the South Dakota Department of
Corrections, South Dakota, was killed in the line of duty. Let us honor this
fallen prison guard and thank God that justice was served, as one of the prison
killers, Eric Robert had been executed on October 15, 2012.
Please go
to the Abwehr
1109 Blog to learn more about this fallen Prison Guard and let us hear from
his family members from this previous blog post
and we will rebut this article.
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SOURCE: http://www.ksfy.com/home/headlines/Rodney-Berget-faces-lethal-injection-while-group-protests-death-penalty-298632931.html
Rodney Berget faces lethal injection, while group protests death penalty
Updated: Fri 6:22 PM, Apr 03, 2015
By: Mark Roper
SIOUX FALLS - It's been nearly four years
since correctional officer Ronald "RJ" Johnson was killed in the line
of duty at the state penitentiary here in Sioux Falls.
KSFY News spoke with Johnson's widow
outside the academy which bears his name.
Her husband was killed at the state
penitentiary by two inmates in a failed escape attempt.
The state executed Eric Robert in
2012.
Rodney Berget is scheduled to die by
lethal injection in May.
A group which believes the death
penalty is wrong was at the prison Friday to protest.
South Dakotans for Alternatives to the
Death Penalty director Denny Davis led the group in prayer. "We come together today brothers and sisters as one
people, to pray and to celebrate, love compassion, and service,"
Davis said.
The group South Dakotans for
Alternatives for the Death Penalty chose Good Friday as a day to pray for
everyone who suffers. It hopes to get rid of the death penalty in South Dakota.
"We believe that
killing someone who has killed, says a great deal about us, as a society. We
believe the death penalty is not about what they do, it's about what we
do,"
Davis said.
They gathered at the state
penitentiary to speak out against the death penalty, but the group also prays
for those who've suffered in life. and Lynette Johnson suffered the loss of the
love of her life.
Ronald Johnosn's widow Lynette Johnson
said "they believe the death penalty is wrong and
it's not. I've asked them when they've appealed the death penalty to please,
try and fix the problem here first."
Where nearly four years ago, Lynette's
husband Ronald "RJ" Johnson was killed by two inmates in the line of
duty during a failed prison escape. One still sits on death row.
"He's allowed
visitation with his family, he gets mail, he has connection with the outside
world, he's taken that away from Ron and I and our family," Johnson said.
"We come to out to
pray for everyone, not only the people who are on death row, but also the
victim's families. We pray for people of domestic violence. We pray for the
immigrants. We pray for all people who suffer," Davis said.
It may be difficult for some to
understand what Lynette has endured.
"I don't want anybody
to actually know what I'm going through because they only way they'd know that
is if it this happened to them," Johnson said.
"We respect
Lynette, we pray for her because i know she is still grieving," Davis added.
"She didn't deserve
what she got in her life, her husband did not deserve that but it's a
reality,"
Davis said.
It's a reality Lynette has had to live
with every day for the past four years.
"some people say it's
an old story, old news. it's not, its my life, i wake up, and think another
day, maybe something's going to happen, we'll get to the truth, someone will
tell the truth maybe the D.O.C. will admit," Johnson said.
Lynette Johnson continues her fight in
working on an appeal in her case against the department of corrections whom she
holds responsible for her husband's death.
"I want the truth. I
want to hold everybody responsible, held accountable for Ron's murder, and that
is not done yet,"
Johnson said.
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