1. Legal process

2. Capital crimes

3. History and methods

4. Individuals executed by Idaho since 1976

5. See also

6. References

7. External links

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Idaho.

Legal process

When the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous.

In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, a life sentence is issued, even if a single juror opposed death (there is no retrial).^[1]

The power of clemency belongs to the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole.^[2]

Men on death row are incarcerated in Boise, and women in Pocatello.^[3] Lethal injection is the only method of execution authorized by statutes.^[4]

Capital crimes

First-degree murder can be punished with death if it involves any of the following aggravating factors:^[5]

1. The defendant was previously convicted of another murder;
2. At the time the murder was committed, the defendant also committed another murder;
3. The defendant knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons;
4. The murder was committed for remuneration or the promise of remuneration, or the defendant employed another to commit the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration;
5. The murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity;
6. By the murder, or circumstances surrounding its commission, the defendant exhibited utter disregard for human life;
7. The murder was committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping or mayhem and the defendant killed, intended to kill, or acted with reckless indifference to human life;
8. The murder was committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, an infamous crime against nature, lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor, sexual abuse of a child under 16 years of age, ritualized abuse of a child, sexual exploitation of a child, sexual battery of a minor child 16 or 17 years of age, or forcible sexual penetration by use of a foreign object, and the defendant killed, intended to kill, or acted with reckless indifference to human life;
9. The defendant, by his conduct, whether such conduct was before, during or after the commission of the murder at hand, has exhibited a propensity to commit murder which will probably constitute a continuing threat to society;
10. The murder was committed against a former or present peace officer, executive officer, officer of the court, judicial officer or prosecuting attorney because of the exercise of official duty or because of the victim's former or present official status;
11. The murder was committed against a witness or potential witness in a criminal or civil legal proceeding because of such proceeding.

Idaho statutes also provides the death penalty for aggravated kidnapping and perjury causing execution of an innocent person.

History and methods

Idaho executed 14 men, all by hanging, before its admission to the Union in 1890. Another 12 men were executed, again by hanging, between that time and 1957. Idaho has never executed a woman.^[6] There were no executions between 1957 and 1972,^[7] when the United States Supreme Court decision Furman v. Georgia struck down all death penalty statutes across the United States and created an effective moratorium on executions.

Idaho passed new statutes on July 7, 1973,^[8] and the 1976 case Gregg v. Georgia lifted the moratorium. Firing squad was the state's sole method of execution between that time and the 1978 adoption of lethal injection^[9] as a second option. In 2009 the firing squad option was removed, Idaho having never executed an inmate by that method. This left lethal injection as the sole execution method.^[10]

Individuals executed by Idaho since 1976

See also

• List of death row inmates in Idaho
• Crime in Idaho
• Law of Idaho

References

External links

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090801012756/http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/IDAHO.htm List of Idaho's pre-1972 executions]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111002070802/http://gallerydriver.com/Art/01LethalInjection.gif Idaho execution chamber photo] (used only once, for Keith Wells)

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