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 from 1850 through 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 —
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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
7Chauncy 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
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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 (also killed Ruth Holmes Webster but was executed for murdering Frame) George Dewey Clyde
44 James W. Rodgers [40] March 30, 1960Firing squad [41] Charles Merrifield [42]

List of people executed in Utah since 1976

No.NameRaceAgeSexDate of executionCountyMethodVictim(s)Governor
1 Gary Mark Gilmore White36MJanuary 17, 1977 Utah Firing squad Bennie Bushnell [lower-alpha 1] Scott M. Matheson
2 Dale Selby Pierre Black34MAugust 28, 1987 Weber [lower-alpha 2] Lethal injection Stanley Orren Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Elaine Naisbitt Norman Bangerter
3 Arthur Gary Bishop White35MJune 10, 1988 Salt Lake Alonzo Daniels, Kim Peterson, Danny Davis, Troy Ward, and Graeme Cunningham
4 William D. Andrews Black37MJuly 30, 1992 Weber [lower-alpha 3] Stanley Orren Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Elaine Naisbitt
5 John Albert Taylor White36MJanuary 26, 1996 Weber Firing squadCharla Nicole King Michael Leavitt
6 Joseph Mitchell Parsons White35MOctober 15, 1999 Iron Lethal injectionRichard Lynn Ernest
7 Ronnie Lee Gardner White49MJune 18, 2010 Salt Lake Firing squadMichael Burdell [lower-alpha 4] Gary Herbert

Notes

  1. ↑ Also killed Max David Jensen, but was executed for killing Bushnell.
  2. ↑ Was tried and convicted in Davis County on a change of venue.
  3. ↑ Was tried and convicted in Davis county, on a change of venue.
  4. ↑ Also killed Melvyn John Otterstrom, but was executed for murdering Burdell.

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