Page Executed

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The state of South Dakota carried out its first execution in 60 years Wednesday night, taking the life of Elijah Page, 25, for a brutal torture slaying committed in 2000.

Page, of Athens, Texas, died from a lethal injection at 10:11 p.m., administered at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.

He pleaded guilty to killing Chester Allan Poage, 19, of Spearfish, who was stabbed, beaten with rocks and forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his home. The torture lasted two to three hours.

Page gave up his court appeals and requested to die.

He was wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, leather straps were around him and a sheet was around the lower half of his body. Page had intravenous tubes in both arms.

He showed no remorse while on the execution table.

“He blinked but he showed no emotion whatsoever,” media witness Bill Harlan, a reporter with the Rapid City Journal, said.

“It was very clinical. It was a very bright room,” Harlan said.

Warden Doug Weber asked Page if he had any last words, and he said an emphatic “No.”