BOISE, Idaho — A jury has decided Chad Daybell deserves the death penalty for murdering his former wife and his new wife’s two children.
After deliberating for almost six hours on Friday and two on Saturday, the same 12 jurors who found Chad Daybell guilty of all crimes against him on Thursday determined that his crimes were especially heinous and do merit the death penalty.
Chad Daybell received the news in the same way he received his conviction — without emotion.
The jury unanimously determined that the murders were “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity,” bringing the sentencing to the level of the death, and that “all mitigating circumstances are not sufficiently compelling to make imposition of the death penalty unjust.”
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Written by COLLIN LEONARD and EMILY ASHCRAFT, KSL.com.