List of individuals executed in Utah
This is a list of individuals executed in the U.S. state of Utah.
Individuals executed in Utah
# | Name | Date of execution | Method of execution | Victim(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 |
3 | Thomas H. Ferguson[6] | October 28, 1858[7] | hanging | Alexander Carpenter[8] | Alfred Cumming |
4 | William Cockcroft[7] | September 21, 1861 | firing squad | Robert Brown | vacant |
– | "Unknown Man"[9] | 1862 | firing squad | Unknown person | |
5 | Jason R. Luce[10] | January 12, 1864 | firing squad | Samuel R. Bunton[11] | James Duane Doty |
6 | Robert Sutton[12] | October 10, 1866 | firing squad | Frederick White[8] | Charles Durkee |
7 | Chauncy W. Millard[12] | January 29, 1869 | firing squad | Harlem P. Swett[10] | vacant |
8 | John Doyle Lee | March 23, 1877 | firing squad | Mountain Meadows massacre | George W. Emery |
9 | Wallace Wilkerson[13] | May 16, 1879 | firing squad (botched)[1] | William Baxter | |
10 | Frederick Hopt (a.k.a. Fred Welcome)[14] | August 11, 1887 | firing squad | John Franklin Turner | Caleb Walton West |
11 | Enoch Davis[15] | September 14, 1894 | firing squad | Enoch's wife | |
– | An American Indian man[2] | 1896 | A white woman | ||
12 | Charles H. Thiede[16] | August 7, 1896 | hanging | Thiede's wife | Heber Manning Wells |
13 | Pat Coughlin[17] | December 15, 1896 | firing squad | Deputy Sheriff Dawes and Constable Stagg | |
14 | Peter Mortensen[18] | November 20, 1903 | firing squad | James R. Hay[19] | |
15 | Frank Rose[18] | April 22, 1904 | firing squad | Rose's wife | |
16 | J. J. Morris[9] | April 30, 1912 | hanging[5] | Morris' wife[20] | William Spry |
17 | Jules C. E. Szirmay (a.k.a. Jules Zirmay)[9] | May 22, 1912 | firing squad | A school boy | |
18 | Harry Thorne[21] | September 26, 1912 | firing squad | A grocery clerk | |
19 | Thomas Riley[9] | October 24, 1912 | firing squad | A grocery clerk | |
20 | Frank Romeo[21] | February 20, 1913 | firing squad | Albert Jenkins[22] | |
21 | Joe Hill | November 19, 1915 | firing squad | John G. Morrison and his son Arlington | |
22 | Howard DeWeese[23] | May 24, 1918 | firing squad | His wife | Simon Bamberger |
23 | John Borich[23] | January 20, 1919 | firing squad | A woman for insurance money | |
24 | Steve Maslich[9] | January 20, 1922 | firing squad | A man in Salt Lake City | Charles R. Mabey |
25 | Nick Oblizalo[9] | June 9, 1922 | firing squad | A man in Salt Lake City | |
26 | George H. Gardner[24] | August 31, 1923 | firing squad | Joseph Irvine and a police officer | |
27 | Omer R. Woods[25] | January 18, 1924 | firing squad | Woods' invalid wife | |
28 | Henry C. Hett (a.k.a. George Allen)[25] | February 20, 1925 | firing squad | Police sergeant Pierce | George Dern |
29 | Pedro Cano [26] | May 19, 1925 | firing squad | A woman in Park City | |
30 | Ralph W. Seyboldt[27] | January 15, 1926 | firing squad | Patrolman David H Crowther | |
31 | Edward McGowan [28] | February 5, 1926 | firing squad | Bob Blevins (and raped his wife and daughters)[28][29] | |
32 | Delbert Green[30] | July 10, 1936 | firing squad | Green's foster father/uncle James Green, mother-in-law/aunt, and wife | Henry H. Blood |
33 | John W. Deering[31] | October 31, 1938 | firing squad | Oliver R. Meredith Jr. | |
34 | Donald Lawton Condit[32] | July 30, 1942 | firing squad | Harold A. Thorne | Herbert B. Maw |
35 | Robert Walter Avery[33] | February 5, 1943 | firing squad | Detective Hoyt L. Gates | |
36 | Austin Cox Jr.[34] | June 19, 1944 | firing squad | Judge Lewis V. Trueman (also killed two other men and two women) | |
37 | James Joseph Roedl[35] | July 13, 1945 | firing squad | Abigail Agnes Williams | |
38 | Eliseo J. Mares Jr.[36] | September 10, 1951 | firing squad | Jack D. Stallings | J. Bracken Lee |
39 | Ray Dempsey Gardner[35] | September 29, 1951 | firing squad | Shirley Jean Gretzinger | |
40 | Don Jesse Neal[37] | July 1, 1955 | firing squad | Sgt. Owen T. Farley | |
41 42 |
Verne Alfred Braasch and Melvin Leroy Sullivan[38] | May 11, 1956 | firing squad | Howard Manzione[39] | |
43 | Barton Kay Kirkham | June 7, 1958 | hanging (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, 1960 | firing squad[41] | Charles Merrifield[42] | |
45 | Gary Gilmore | January 17, 1977 | firing squad | Ben Bushnell and Max David Jensen | Scott M. Matheson |
46 | Dale Selby Pierre | August 28, 1987 | lethal injection | Stanley Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt | Norman Bangerter |
47 | Arthur Bishop | June 10, 1988 | lethal injection | Alonzo Daniels, Kim Peterson, Danny Davis, Troy Ward, and Graeme Cunningham | |
48 | William Andrews | July 30, 1992 | lethal injection | Stanley Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt | |
49 | John Albert Taylor | January 27, 1996 | firing squad | Charla Nicole King | Michael Leavitt |
50 | Joseph Mitchell Parsons | October 15, 1999 | lethal injection | Richard Lynn Ernest | |
51 | Ronnie Lee Gardner | June 18, 2010 | firing squad | Michael Burdell (also killed Melvyn Otterstrom and wounded George "Nick" Kirk but was executed for murdering Burdell) | Gary Herbert |
See also
References
- 1 2 Schindler, Hal (January 28, 1996). "Taylor's Death Was Quick . . . But Some Weren't So Lucky". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
- 1 2 3 The Unforgiven – 02 |
- ↑ Utah History to Go
- 1 2 Wilson, R. Michael (2010). Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847–1911. McFarland & Company. p. 164. ISBN 9780786456338. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
- 1 2 "Utah: Tales of the Firing Squad". Time. July 11, 1955. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ↑ Schindler, Hal (June 27, 1993). "Lengthy Gallows Soliloquoy [sic] Impedes Swift Justice". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- 1 2 Wilson (2010). Legal Executions in the Western Territories. p. 165. ISBN 9780786456338.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ↑ "Affairs in Utah: A Murder Theatricals and Lectures Mercantile". New York Times. May 16, 1879. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- 1 2 Wilson (2010). Legal Executions in the Western Territories. p. 167. ISBN 9780786456338.
- ↑ "The Death Penalty for Murder". Deseret Evening News. George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young. May 16, 1879. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
- ↑ Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 110. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 111. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 See also: find a grave entry
- 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 112. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ "Peter Mortensen Must Die— Prisoner Stunned By News". Deseret News. August 13, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ↑ "Hidden Rifles to Fulfill Execution Wish of Slayer". The Pittsburgh Press. 55 (123). United Press International. October 27, 1938. p. 2. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 113. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ 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.
- 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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- 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 117. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ Gillespie, L. Kay (1997). The Unforgiven: Utah's Executed Men. Signature Books. p. 100. ISBN 9781560850984. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ↑ "Firing Squad Kills Slayer". Los Angeles Times. January 16, 1926. p. 6. Retrieved 2010-11-10. (subscription required)
- 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 118. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ Gillespie (1997). The Unforgiven. p. 105. ISBN 9781560850984.
- ↑ "Utah Firing Squad Executes Slayer". The Evening Independent. Associated Press. July 10, 1936. p. 8. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ↑ Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 119. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ "Murderer Killed By Firing Squad". The Palm Beach Post. Associated Press. July 31, 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ↑ Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 120. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ "Killer of Five Executed by Utah Firing Squad". The Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. June 19, 1944. p. 5. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- 1 2 Elder; et al. (2010). Last Words of the Executed. p. 121. ISBN 9780226202693.
- ↑ "Utah Firing Squad Executes Slayer". The Pittsburgh Press. United Press International. September 10, 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ↑ "Condemned Killer Dies Before Utah Firing Squad". Oxnard Press-Courier. United Press International. July 1, 1955. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ↑ Benedict, Howard S. (May 11, 1956). "Utah Executes Two Murderers". Kentucky New Era. Associated Press. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ↑ "Utah Killers Face Firing Squad Today". The Lewiston Daily Sun. Associated Press. May 11, 1956. p. 20. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
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- ↑ Beecham, Bill (November 11, 1976). "Convicted Killer Gets His Wish: Firing Squad Monday". The Telegraph (Nashua). Associated Press. p. 22. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ↑ "Grim Jokes Are Tossed Before Death". The Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. March 31, 1960. p. 19. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
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