Utah State Prison - Notable Inmates

Notable Inmates

• Ted Bundy, serial killer, was sentenced to 15 years in the Utah State Prison in 1976, but was extradited to Colorado to face other murder charges.
• Ronnie Lee Gardner, convicted for murder and executed by firing squad on June 18, 2010.
• Gary Gilmore was executed at the Utah State Prison in 1977. He was the first prisoner legally put to death in the United States since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended a 1967 moratorium on capital punishment.
• Thomas Arthur Green, a convicted bigamist and noted practicing polygamist, served his sentences here. He was released in the summer of 2007.
• Mark Hofmann, convicted for murder and forgery, is currently incarcerated at the Utah State Prison.
• Warren Jeffs, president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was incarcerated at the Utah State Prison. However, he is now serving a life sentence for sex crimes in Texas.
• Troy Kell, convicted for murder after stabbing an inmate 67 times in the Central Utah Correctional Facility and sentenced to the death penalty and has chosen to be executed by firing squad.
• Barton Kay Kirkham, convicted for murder and the last inmate to be executed by hanging in the state of Utah in 1958.
• James W. Rodgers, convicted for murder and the last inmate to be executed by firing squad in the United States in 1960, before a de facto national moratorium on capital punishment was enacted with the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Furman v. Georgia.
• John Albert Taylor, executed by firing squad in 1996 for the 1988 rape and strangulation of an 11-year-old girl.