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. The last six were:

• 1957 – Raymond Snowden (age 35), October 18
• 1951 – Ernest Walrath (20) and Troy Powell (21), April 13
• 1926 – John Jurko (41), July 9
• 1924 – Noah Arnold (32), December 19
• 1909 – Fred Seward (28), May 7

Source:^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

See also

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