Idaho
Idaho has executed 29 people since 1864 (including 14 since it became a state in 1890), but only three since 1957; Keith Eugene Wells, who ceased his appeals and was executed by lethal injection in 1994, Paul Ezra Rhoades, executed in November 2011 after 24 years spent on death row and Richard Leavitt who was executed by lethal injection on June 12, 2012. Hanging was used until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death penalty nationally in 1972. Firing squad could have been chosen by the inmate, or if lethal injection was deemed problematic, but had never been used and was discontinued in 2009. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that Idaho's sentencing in death penalty cases has to be done by the jury, not the judge. Males on death row are housed at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.
| Name | Description of crime | Date sentenced | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azad Haji Abdullah | Murder by arson of his wife and attempted murder of their four children in Boise on October 5, 2002 | November 23, 2004 | |
| David Leslie Card | Murder by shooting of a Nampa newscarrier couple on June 5, 1988 | September 1989 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
| Thomas Eugene Creech | Murder by beating of an inmate on May 13, 1981 | January 1983 | Previously on Idaho's death row; in 1977 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Idaho's previous death penalty on his appeal. |
| Timothy Alan Dunlap | Murder by shooting of a Soda Springs bank teller during a robbery on October 16, 1991 | April 20, 1992 | Also sentenced by Ohio for murdering his girlfriend. |
| Zane Jack Fields | Murder by stabbing of a Boise store owner during a robbery February 11, 1988 | August 1991 | |
| James Harvey Hairston | Murder by shooting and robbery of an elderly Downey couple on January 6, 1996 | November 1996 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
| Erick Virgil Hall | Murder and rape of two women on September 24, 2000 and in 2003 | August 2004 | |
| Michael Allen Jauhola | Murder by beating of an inmate on April 16, 1998 | May 2001 | |
| Darrell Payne | 1st degree murder for the death of a woman in Ada County | May 2002 | |
| Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. | Murder by beating of a Marsing woman and her nephew in July 1985 | May 1986 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
| Robin Lee Row | Murder by arson of her husband and their two children in February 1992 | December 1993 | Only woman on Idaho's death row; housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center. |
| Lacey Mark Sivak | Murder by shooting and stabbing of a gas station former co-worker during a robbery in April 1981 | December 1981 | Has been on Idaho's death row the longest. |
| Gene Francis Stuart | Murder by torture of his girlfriend's three year old son in September 1981 | December 1982 | Denied retrial in 2010. |
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Death Row Inmates