List of people executed in Utah

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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Utah .

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List of people executed in Utah since 1976

No.NameRaceAgeSexDate of executionCountyMethodVictim(s)Governor
1 Gary Mark Gilmore [a] White36MJanuary 17, 1977 Utah Firing squad Bennie Bushnell [b] Scott M. Matheson
2 Dale Selby Pierre Black34MAugust 28, 1987 Weber [c] Lethal injection Stanley Orren Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Elaine Naisbitt Norman Bangerter
3 Arthur Gary Bishop White35MJune 10, 1988 Salt Lake 5 murder victims [d]
4 William D. Andrews Black37MJuly 30, 1992 Weber [e] Stanley Orren Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Elaine Naisbitt
5 John Albert Taylor White36MJanuary 26, 1996Firing squadCharla Nicole King Mike Leavitt
6 Joseph Mitchell Parsons White35MOctober 15, 1999 Iron Lethal injectionRichard Lynn Ernest
7 Ronnie Lee Gardner White49MJune 18, 2010 [f] Salt Lake Firing squadMichael Burdell [g] Gary Herbert
8 Taberon Dave Honie Native American48MAugust 8, 2024 [h] Iron Lethal injectionClaudia Marie Benn Spencer Cox

Demographics

Race
White563%
Black225%
Native American113%
Age
30–39675%
40–49225%
Sex
Male8100%
Date of execution
1976–1979113%
1980–1989225%
1990–1999338%
2000–200900%
2010–2019113%
2020–2029113%
Method
Lethal injection 563%
Firing squad 338%
Governor (Party)
Cal Rampton (D) 00%
Scott M. Matheson (D) 113%
Norman Bangerter (R) 338%
Mike Leavitt (R) 225%
Olene Walker (R) 00%
Jon Huntsman Jr. (R) 00%
Gary Herbert (R) 113%
Spencer Cox (R) 113%
Total8100%

List of people executed in Utah from 1850 to 1960

#NameDate of executionMethod of executionVictim(s)Governor
–Patsowits [1] and his brother [2] Spring 1850 Garroting Patsowits killed an emigrant settler and his brother had made several death threats [2] —
–An emigrant [3] 1850 Beheading —
1
2		Antelope and Long Hair [4] September 15, 1854 Hanging Two sons of a Mormon bishop in Cedar Valley [4] [5] Brigham Young
3Thomas H. Ferguson [6] October 28, 1858 [7] Alexander Carpenter [8] Alfred Cumming
4William Cockcroft [7] September 21, 1861 Firing squad Robert Brown vacant
–"Unknown Man" [9] 1862Unknown person
5Jason R. Luce [10] January 12, 1864Samuel R. Bunton [11] James Duane Doty
6Robert Sutton [12] October 10, 1866Frederick White [8] Charles Durkee
7 Chauncey W. Millard [12] January 29, 1869Harlem P. Swett [10] vacant
8 John Doyle Lee March 23, 1877 Mountain Meadows massacre George W. Emery
9 Wallace Wilkerson [13] May 16, 1879Firing squad (botched) [1] William Baxter
10Frederick Hopt (a.k.a. Fred Welcome) [14] August 11, 1887Firing squadJohn Franklin Turner Caleb Walton West
11Enoch Davis [15] September 14, 1894Enoch's wife
–An American Indian man [2] 1896A white woman
12Charles H. Thiede [16] August 7, 1896HangingThiede's wife Heber Manning Wells
13Pat Coughlin [17] December 15, 1896Firing squadDeputy Sheriff Dawes and Constable Stagg
14Peter Mortensen [18] November 20, 1903James R. Hay [19]
15Frank Rose [18] April 22, 1904Rose's wife
16J. J. Morris [9] April 30, 1912Hanging [5] Morris' wife [20] William Spry
17Jules C. E. Szirmay (a.k.a. Jules Zirmay) [9] May 22, 1912Firing squadThomas Karrick, a school boy
18Harry Thorne [21] September 26, 1912A grocery clerk
19Thomas Riley [9] October 24, 1912A grocery clerk
20Frank Romeo [21] February 20, 1913Albert Jenkins [22]
21 Joe Hill November 19, 1915John G. Morrison and his son Arlington
22Howard DeWeese [23] May 24, 1918His wife Simon Bamberger
23John Borich [23] January 20, 1919A woman for insurance money
24Steve Maslich [9] January 20, 1922Marco Laus Charles R. Mabey
25Nick Oblizalo [9] June 9, 1922
26George H. Gardner [24] August 31, 1923Joseph Irvine and a police officer
27Omer R. Woods [25] January 18, 1924Woods' invalid wife
28Henry C. Hett (a.k.a. George Allen) [25] February 20, 1925Police sergeant Nephi Pierce George Dern
29Pedro Cano [26] May 19, 1925A woman in Park City
30Ralph W. Seyboldt [27] January 15, 1926Patrolman David H Crowther
31Edward McGowan [28] February 5, 1926Bob Blevins (and raped his wife and daughters) [28] [29]
32Delbert Green [30] July 10, 1936Green's foster father/uncle James Green, mother-in-law/aunt, and wife Henry H. Blood
33 John W. Deering [31] October 31, 1938Oliver R. Meredith Jr.
34Donald Lawton Condit [32] July 30, 1942Harold A. Thorne Herbert B. Maw
35Robert Walter Avery [33] February 5, 1943Detective Hoyt L. Gates
36Austin Cox Jr. [34] June 19, 1944Judge Lewis V. Trueman (also killed two other men and two women)
37James Joseph Roedl [35] July 13, 1945Abigail Agnes Williams
38Eliseo J. Mares Jr. [36] September 10, 1951Jack D. Stallings J. Bracken Lee
39 Ray Dempsey Gardner [35] September 29, 1951Shirley Jean Gretzinger
40Don Jesse Neal [37] July 1, 1955Sgt. Owen T. Farley
41
42		Verne Alfred Braasch and Melvin Leroy Sullivan [38] May 11, 1956Howard Manzione [39]
43 Barton Kay Kirkham June 7, 1958Hanging (last in Utah)David Avon Frame [i] George Dewey Clyde
44 James W. Rodgers [40] March 30, 1960Firing squad [41] Charles Merrifield [42]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gilmore was the first criminal to be executed in both Utah and the United States since the 1976 resumption of capital punishment in the nation.
  2. ↑ Also killed Max David Jensen, but was executed for murdering Bushnell.
  3. ↑ Was tried and convicted in Davis County, on a change of venue.
  4. ↑ The five murder victims were: Alonzo Daniels, Claude Kimley Peterson, Danny Davis, Troy Ward, and Graeme Cunningham.
  5. ↑ William D. Andrews was tried and convicted in Davis County, on a change of venue.
  6. ↑ This was the last execution held at the Utah State Prison in Draper.
  7. ↑ Also killed Melvyn John Otterstrom, but was executed for murdering Burdell.
  8. ↑ This was the first execution held at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City.
  9. ↑ Also killed Ruth Holmes Webster, but was executed for murdering Frame.

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 The Unforgiven – 02 |
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  4. 1 2 "Utah: Tales of the Firing Squad". Time . July 11, 1955. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
  5. ↑ Schindler, Hal (June 27, 1993). "Lengthy Gallows Soliloquoy [sic] Impedes Swift Justice". The Salt Lake Tribune . Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  6. 1 2 Schindler, Hal (August 27, 1995). "The Disappearance of John Baptiste Grave: Robber's Case Is 'A Lost Page of History'". The Salt Lake Tribune . Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Martz, Maxine (January 15, 1977). "Gilmore would be No. 45 on death list". Deseret News . p. 1. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  8. 1 2 Elder, Robert K.; Terkel, Studs (2010). Last Words of the Executed. University of Chicago Press. p. 107. ISBN   9780226202693 . Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  9. ↑ "Affairs in Utah: A Murder Theatricals and Lectures Mercantile". New York Times . May 16, 1879. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
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  12. ↑ Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. University of Chicago Press. p. 111. ISBN   9780226202693.
  13. ↑ Wilson, R. Michael (2007). Frontier Justice in the Wild West: Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions. Globe Pequot. p. 106. ISBN   9780762743896 . Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  14. ↑ Salt Lake Herald December 16, 1896 also .p.4; on July 30, 1895 he had killed Deputy Sheriff Edward N. Dawes of Unita County Wyoming and Constable Thomas Stagg of Echo County Utah
  15. 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. University of Chicago Press. p. 112. ISBN   9780226202693.
  16. ↑ "Peter Mortensen Must Die— Prisoner Stunned By News". Deseret News . August 13, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  17. ↑ "Hidden Rifles to Fulfill Execution Wish of Slayer". The Pittsburgh Press . Vol. 55, no. 123. United Press International. October 27, 1938. p. 2. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
  18. 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. University of Chicago Press. p. 113. ISBN   9780226202693.
  19. ↑ Pratt, Harmel L. (1914). Reports of cases decided in the Supreme Court of the state of Utah, Vol. 42. A.L. Bancroft & Company. p. 48. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  20. 1 2 Cutler, Christopher Q. (2002). "Nothing less than the Dignity of Man: Evolving Standards, Botched Executions and Utah's Controversial Use of the Firing Squad". Cleveland State Law Review. Retrieved 2010-11-10.(subscription required)
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  22. 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 117. ISBN   9780226202693.
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  25. 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 118. ISBN   9780226202693.
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  39. ↑ "Grim Jokes Are Tossed Before Death". The Spokesman-Review . Associated Press. March 31, 1960. p. 19. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
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