Holding up a moody photo of Chester as a pre-schooler gazing up toward the sky, she said: "He was already looking up to God when he was young." Poage said that was almost as if God knew then that ...

In the end, Briley Piper's apology for Chester Allan Poage's death came too late to impress the jury of eight men and four women who deliberated for slightly more than six hours before unanimously ...

A federal court judge has denied an Alaska man’s petition to appeal his death sentence and he will remain as the only inmate on death row in South Dakota. Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to ...

In apparent hopes of escaping death sentences, Page and Piper avoided trial by pleading guilty to killing Chester Poage, 19, of Spearfish. Darrell Hoadley, who also participated in the slaying ...

At a news conference afterthe execution, Chester Poage's mother, Dottie Poage, stood at the podium and shuffled through papers, before beginning her minutes-long statement. "My son, Chester ...

Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to death for the 2000 murder of Chester Allan Poage in South Dakota. Piper has repeatedly appealed his death sentence, but his latest appeal was denied by a ...