List of people executed in Idaho

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Idaho since capital punishment was resumed in 1976.

Three men have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision; all three were executed by lethal injection at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, east of Kuna.^[1] Wells' execution in early 1994 was the first in the state in over 36 years, when Raymond Snowden was hanged in October 1957; the next was over 17 years later in November 2011.

List of people executed in Idaho since 1976

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Keith Eugene Wells	White	31	M	January 6, 1994	Ada	Lethal injection	John Justad and Brandi Rains	Cecil Andrus
2	Paul Ezra Rhoades	White	54	M	November 18, 2011	Bingham and Bonneville		Stacy Baldwin, Nolan Haddon, and Susan Michelbacher	Butch Otter
3	Richard Albert Leavitt	White	53	M	June 12, 2012	Bingham		Danette Jean Elg

Demographics

Race
White	3	100%
Age
30–39	1	33%
40–49	0	0%
50–59	2	67%
Sex
Male	3	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	0	0%
1990–1999	1	33%
2000–2009	0	0%
2010–2019	2	67%
2020–2029	0	0%
Method
Lethal injection	3	100%
Governor (Party)
Cecil Andrus (D)	1	33%
John Evans (D)	0	0%
Phil Batt (R)	0	0%
Dirk Kempthorne (R)	0	0%
Jim Risch (R)	0	0%
Butch Otter (R)	2	67%
Brad Little (R)	0	0%
Total	3	100%

Prior executions

Previous executions in Idaho were by hanging at the Old Idaho State Penitentiary, east of downtown Boise.^[2][3]

Name	Race	Age	Date of execution	County	Crime	Victim(s)	Governor
Edward Rice	White		November 30, 1901	Shoshone	Murder-Robbery	Matthew Mailley, 60, white[4][a]	Frank W. Hunt
James Connors	White		December 16, 1904	Kootenai	Murder	E. P. Sweet, white (deputy sheriff)[5]	John T. Morrison
William H. Bond	White	35	August 10, 1906	Ada	Murder	Mr. Daly, white[6]	Frank R. Gooding
Fred M. Seward	White		May 7, 1909	Latah	Murder	Clara O'Neill, white (girlfriend)[7]
Noah Arnold	Black	28	December 19, 1924	Bonner	Murder-Robbery	William Crisp, white[8]	Charles C. Moore
John Jurko	White		July 9, 1926	Twin Falls	Murder	A. B. W. Vandenmark, 70, white[9]
Troy D. Powell	White	19	April 13, 1951	Ada	Murder-Robbery	Newton W. Wilson, 65, white[10]	Leonard B. Jordan
Ernest Lee Walrath	White	20
Raymond Allen Snowden	White	35	October 18, 1957	Ada	Murder-Rape	Mrs. Cora Lucyle Dean, 48, white[11]	Robert E. Smylie

See also

• Capital punishment in Idaho
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. Also suspected of murdering a Swede named Johnson.