A convicted killer who fatally stabbed a former co-worker during a 1992 burglary was executed on Monday.
A convicted killer who fatally stabbed a former co-worker during a 1992 burglary used his last words Monday to speak directly to the parents of his victim, saying he forgave them for their “anger and hatred toward me.”
“Ed and Peggy Schaeffer, I forgive you for your anger and hatred toward me,” Rhines said, before thanking his defense team. “I pray to God that he forgives you for your anger and hatred toward me. Thanks to my team. I love you all, goodbye. Let’s go. That’s all I have to say. Goodbye.”Rhines ambushed 22-year-old Donnivan Schaefer in 1992 when Schaefer surprised him in the midst of burglarizing a Rapid City doughnut shop where Schaeffer worked.
When asked about Rhines’ final words addressing them, Peggy Schaeffer said she had no anger toward Rhines and had already forgiven him. “If I started hating, I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t be who I am.”Media witnesses to the execution said Rhines appeared calm, and it took only about a minute for the pentobarbital used by the state to take effect. They said when he finished speaking, he closed his eyes, then blinked, breathed heavily, rolled his head to the right and passed out.
Schaeffer was delivering supplies to Dig ‘Em Donuts, where he worked, when Rhines ambushed him, stabbing him in the stomach. Bleeding from his wound, Schaeffer begged to be taken to a hospital, vowing to keep silent about the crime; instead, he was forced into a storeroom, tied up and stabbed to death.
In the afternoon, about 30 protesters gathered in snow flurries outside the state prison where Rhines was to be executed, praying and singing hymns. Denny Davis, director of South Dakotans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said they accepted Rhines’ execution but hoped to steer public opinion against capital punishment.
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