South Dakota joined the union with capital punishment in 1889, though five executions occurred before established statehood. Nine people were killed by the state before South Dakota banned the ...

and no capital gains tax, finances there are also sheltered from the government, the outlet said. 81 of the offshore accounts detailed in the Pandora Papers are in South Dakota, making it the ...

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet is quickly taking shape. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem are expected to be tapped as the next secretary of state and Homeland ...

As Daniel writes, “Carefully designed, a South Dakota dynasty trust can operate as a perpetual estate-tax-avoidance machine.” The trusts still must pay federal income tax on any capital gains ...

“He essentially helped steal the state territorial capital from Yankton, now in South Dakota, to Bismarck, now in North Dakota” says Porter. The capital grab, which moved the capital even ...

YANKTON, South Dakota — What is now the southeast ... water supply and power production. Yankton, the old capital of the Dakota Territory, is just downriver from the site of the Gavins Point ...

What is now South Dakota was among the northern Plains land claimed by the French and sold to the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Tourism Leaders Worried Soft Economy Will Slow Revenues South ...