The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of 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] | 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] |
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 |
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of 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] | 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] |
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 |