List of people executed in Utah

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

People executed in 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		A man in Salt Lake City	Charles R. Mabey
25	Nick Oblizalo[9]	June 9, 1922		A man in Salt Lake City
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 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]
45	Gary Gilmore	January 17, 1977		Ben Bushnell and Max David Jensen	Scott M. Matheson
46	Dale Selby Pierre	August 28, 1987	Lethal injection	Stanley Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt	Norman Bangerter
47	Arthur Bishop	June 10, 1988		Alonzo Daniels, Kim Peterson, Danny Davis, Troy Ward, and Graeme Cunningham
48	William Andrews	July 30, 1992		Stanley Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt
49	John Albert Taylor	January 27, 1996	Firing squad	Charla Nicole King	Michael Leavitt
50	Joseph Mitchell Parsons	October 15, 1999	Lethal injection	Richard Lynn Ernest
51	Ronnie Lee Gardner	June 18, 2010	Firing squad	Michael Burdell (also killed Melvyn Otterstrom and wounded George "Nick" Kirk but was executed for murdering Burdell)	Gary Herbert

See also

• Capital punishment in Utah
• Capital punishment in the United States

References

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