Gov. Kristi Noem commuted the sentences of two people convicted of murder and issued 45 more pardons since February.
Since taking office in 2019, Noem has commuted the sentences of 27 people and pardoned 341.
Her first commutation of the summer was granted to 70-year-old John Proctor on July 24.
Proctor has served 51 years in prison for killing Meade County rancher Arlon Hamm. Proctor had been carrying on an affair with Hamm’s stepmother, Billie Jean Hamm, with whom he’d plotted to kill Arlon Hamm.