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The following is a list of people executed by the
U.S. state of
Utah .
List of people executed in Utah from 1850 to 1960
#
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]
Alexander Carpenter
[8]
Alfred Cumming
4
William Cockcroft
[7]
September 21, 1861
Firing squad
Robert Brown
vacant
–
"Unknown Man"
[9]
1862
Unknown person
5
Jason R. Luce
[10]
January 12, 1864
Samuel R. Bunton
[11]
James Duane Doty
6
Robert Sutton
[12]
October 10, 1866
Frederick White
[8]
Charles Durkee
7
Chauncy W. Millard
[12]
January 29, 1869
Harlem P. Swett
[10]
vacant
8
John Doyle Lee
March 23, 1877
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
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
James R. Hay
[19]
15
Frank Rose
[18]
April 22, 1904
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
Thomas Karrick, a school boy
18
Harry Thorne
[21]
September 26, 1912
A grocery clerk
19
Thomas Riley
[9]
October 24, 1912
A grocery clerk
20
Frank Romeo
[21]
February 20, 1913
Albert Jenkins
[22]
21
Joe Hill
November 19, 1915
John G. Morrison and his son Arlington
22
Howard DeWeese
[23]
May 24, 1918
His wife
Simon Bamberger
23
John Borich
[23]
January 20, 1919
A woman for insurance money
24
Steve Maslich
[9]
January 20, 1922
Marco Laus
Charles R. Mabey
25
Nick Oblizalo
[9]
June 9, 1922
26
George H. Gardner
[24]
August 31, 1923
Joseph Irvine and a police officer
27
Omer R. Woods
[25]
January 18, 1924
Woods' invalid wife
28
Henry C. Hett (a.k.a. George Allen)
[25]
February 20, 1925
Police sergeant Nephi Pierce
George Dern
29
Pedro Cano
[26]
May 19, 1925
A woman in Park City
30
Ralph W. Seyboldt
[27]
January 15, 1926
Patrolman David H Crowther
31
Edward McGowan
[28]
February 5, 1926
Bob Blevins (and raped his wife and daughters)
[28]
[29]
32
Delbert Green
[30]
July 10, 1936
Green's foster father/uncle James Green, mother-in-law/aunt, and wife
Henry H. Blood
33
John W. Deering
[31]
October 31, 1938
Oliver R. Meredith Jr.
34
Donald Lawton Condit
[32]
July 30, 1942
Harold A. Thorne
Herbert B. Maw
35
Robert Walter Avery
[33]
February 5, 1943
Detective Hoyt L. Gates
36
Austin Cox Jr.
[34]
June 19, 1944
Judge Lewis V. Trueman (also killed two other men and two women)
37
James Joseph Roedl
[35]
July 13, 1945
Abigail Agnes Williams
38
Eliseo J. Mares Jr.
[36]
September 10, 1951
Jack D. Stallings
J. Bracken Lee
39
Ray Dempsey Gardner
[35]
September 29, 1951
Shirley Jean Gretzinger
40
Don Jesse Neal
[37]
July 1, 1955
Sgt. Owen T. Farley
41 42
Verne Alfred Braasch and Melvin Leroy Sullivan
[38]
May 11, 1956
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]
List of people executed in Utah since 1976
No.
Name
Race
Age
Sex
Date of execution
County
Method
Victim(s)
Governor
1
Gary Mark Gilmore
White
36
M
January 17, 1977
Utah
Firing squad
Bennie Bushnell
[a]
Scott M. Matheson
2
Dale Selby Pierre
Black
34
M
August 28, 1987
Weber
[b]
Lethal injection
Stanley Orren Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Elaine Naisbitt
Norman Bangerter
3
Arthur Gary Bishop
White
35
M
June 10, 1988
Salt Lake
5 murder victims
[c]
4
William D. Andrews
Black
37
M
July 30, 1992
Weber
[d]
Stanley Orren Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Elaine Naisbitt
5
John Albert Taylor
White
36
M
January 26, 1996
Weber
Firing squad
Charla Nicole King
Michael Leavitt
6
Joseph Mitchell Parsons
White
35
M
October 15, 1999
Iron
Lethal injection
Richard Lynn Ernest
7
Ronnie Lee Gardner
White
49
M
June 18, 2010
Salt Lake
Firing squad
Michael Burdell
[e]
Gary Herbert
Notes
^ Also killed Max David Jensen, but was executed for murdering Bushnell.
^ Was tried and convicted in
Davis County on a change of venue.
^ The five murder victims were: Alonzo Daniels, Claude Kimley Peterson, Danny Davis, Troy Ward, and Graeme Cunningham.
^ Was tried and convicted in
Davis County , on a change of venue.
^ Also killed Melvyn John Otterstrom, but was executed for murdering Burdell.
See also
References
^
a
b Schindler, Hal (January 28, 1996).
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The Salt Lake Tribune . Archived from
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^
a
b
c
The Unforgiven – 02 |
^
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^
a
b Wilson, R. Michael (2010).
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McFarland & Company . p. 164.
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^
a
b
"Utah: Tales of the Firing Squad" .
Time . July 11, 1955. Archived from
the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2011 .
^ Schindler, Hal (June 27, 1993).
"Lengthy Gallows Soliloquoy [sic] Impedes Swift Justice" .
The Salt Lake Tribune . Retrieved 2010-11-01 .
^
a
b Wilson (2010).
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ISBN
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^
a
b 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 .
^
a
b
c
d
e
f Martz, Maxine (January 15, 1977).
"Gilmore would be No. 45 on death list" .
Deseret News . p. 1. Retrieved 2010-11-10 .
^
a
b Elder, Robert K.; Terkel, Studs (2010).
Last Words of the Executed .
University of Chicago Press . p. 107.
ISBN
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^
"Affairs in Utah: A Murder Theatricals and Lectures Mercantile" .
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^
a
b Wilson (2010).
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ISBN
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^
"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 . University of Chicago Press. p. 110.
ISBN
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^ Elder; et al. (2010).
Last Words of the Executed . University of Chicago Press. p. 111.
ISBN
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^ 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
[1] and Constable Thomas Stagg of Echo County Utah
[2]
^
a
b Elder; et al. (2010).
Last Words of the Executed . University of Chicago Press. p. 112.
ISBN
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^
"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 . Vol. 55, no. 123.
United Press International . October 27, 1938. p. 2. Retrieved February 8, 2011 .
^
a
b Elder; et al. (2010).
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ISBN
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^ 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 .
^
a
b 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)
^ Elder; et al. (2010).
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ISBN
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^
a
b Elder; et al. (2010).
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ISBN
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^ Gillespie, L. Kay (1997).
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ISBN
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^
"Firing Squad Kills Slayer" .
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^
a
b Elder; et al. (2010).
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ISBN
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^ Gillespie (1997).
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ISBN
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^
"Utah Firing Squad Executes Slayer" .
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Associated Press . July 10, 1936. p. 8. Retrieved 2010-10-28 .
^ Elder; et al. (2010).
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ISBN
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^
"Murderer Killed By Firing Squad" .
The Palm Beach Post .
Associated Press . July 31, 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 2010-11-10 .
^ Elder; et al. (2010).
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ISBN
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^
"Killer of Five Executed by Utah Firing Squad" .
The Milwaukee Journal .
Associated Press . June 19, 1944. p. 5. Retrieved 2010-10-28 .
^
a
b Elder; et al. (2010).
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^
"Utah Firing Squad Executes Slayer" .
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^
"Condemned Killer Dies Before Utah Firing Squad" .
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^ Benedict, Howard S. (May 11, 1956).
"Utah Executes Two Murderers" .
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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 .
^
"Slayer Shot By Firing Squad" .
The Milwaukee Sentinel .
United Press International . March 31, 1960. p. 3. Retrieved 2010-10-28 .
^ 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 .