For a man who has spent nearly 30 years fighting his death sentence, Ronald Allen Smith is surprisingly comfortable with the prospect of being executed.

HELENA – The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole Monday unanimously recommended against clemency for death-row inmate and convicted killer Ronald Smith, saying his death penalty should stand.

The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole Monday unanimously recommended against clemency for death-row inmate and convicted killer Ronald Smith, saying his death penalty should stand.

DEER LODGE- Back in 1983, death row inmate Ronald Allen Smith testified he had always had a morbid fascination to find out what it would be like to kill somebody.

DEER LODGE – In a county courtroom here on a cold spring day, Thomas Running Rabbit IV faced for the first time the man who killed his father almost 30 years ago. “Anything you propose, I will oppose you,” he said Wednesday, pointing at convicted killer Ronald Smith, who is asking for his death sentence to be commuted to life in prison. “Decisions he has made, he has to pay for. That’s all there ...

DEER LODGE — In a county courtroom here on a cold spring day, Thomas Running Rabbit IV on Tuesday faced for the first time the man who killed his father almost 30 years ago.

DEER LODGE – In a county courtroom here on a cold spring day, Thomas Running Rabbit IV on Tuesday faced for the first time the man who killed his father almost 30 years ago.

DEER LODGE- A hearing is underway at the Powell County Courthouse in order to determine if Montana Prison inmate Ronald Allen Smith will be taken off death row and granted a lesser sentence.

In 1983, death row inmate Ronald Allen Smith testified he had always had a morbid fascination to find out what it would be like to kill somebody.

In 1983, death row inmate Ronald Allen Smith testified he had always had a "morbid fascination to find out what it would be like to kill somebody." Now, nearly 30 years later, he claims he is a changed man and is asking Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) for clemency.