Chad Daybell sentenced to dying for the murders of Tammy Daybell, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan

BOISE — A jury has determined Chad Daybell deserves the dying penalty for murdering his former spouse and his new spouse’s two kids.

After deliberating for nearly six hours on Friday and two on Saturday, the identical 12 jurors who discovered Chad Daybell responsible of all crimes in opposition to him on Thursday decided that his crimes had been particularly heinous and do benefit the dying penalty.

He was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide within the deaths of 7-year-old JJ Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and his former spouse, 49-year-old Tammy Daybell on Thursday. The jury additionally discovered him responsible of conspiring to homicide every of the victims, grand theft and two counts of insurance coverage fraud.

Chad Daybell obtained the information in the identical method he obtained his conviction — with out emotion.

Kay Woodcock, Tylee and JJ’s grandmother, broke down in tears when the sentence was learn, with their grandfather Larry Woodcock hugging her.

The jury unanimously decided that the murders had been “particularly heinous, atrocious, or merciless, manifesting distinctive depravity,” bringing the sentencing to the extent of the dying, and that “all mitigating circumstances will not be sufficiently compelling to make imposition of the dying penalty unjust.”

Decide Steven Boyce, to these in attendance, defined in layman’s phrases: “The jury has made a discovering that it might be applicable to impose the dying penalty.”

After a quick recess, Boyce sentenced Chad Daybell to dying, following the findings of the jury, and gave two totally different 15-year sentences for the insurance coverage fraud expenses, to run concurrently together with his dying sentences.

Tammy Daybell’s cousin Patricia Later launched a press release to East Idaho Information, saying, “We are able to all begin to heal from the horrible losses we’ve suffered. We are going to miss Tammy each single day of our lives, however we’ve some consolation understanding we are going to see her once more.”

Idaho Legal professional Normal Raúl Labrador additionally made a press release, saying “I’m grateful for the extremely diligent work of the prosecutors and investigators on this complicated case, and I’m grateful for the partnerships we’ve in place to assist the pursuit of justice. I hope the conviction of Chad Daybell and the jury’s sentence offers a measure of peace to the households of the victims, Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow and Tammy Daybell.”

The primary execution in Idaho since 2011 was tried in February, however the medical employees on the Division of Corrections was unable to seek out the vein of 73-year-old Thomas Creech for a deadly injection, in keeping with Idaho Gov. Brad Little. Little signed a invoice in 2023 authorizing a firing squad as a technique of execution after a nationwide scarcity of medication utilized in deadly injections.

In response to the division, there are presently eight inmates on dying row in Idaho. Creech obtained the dying penalty in January 1983. Daybell shall be No. 9.

On Friday, jurors listened to influence statements from relations of every of the victims, together with JJ’s grandmother, Tylee’s older brother and aunt, Tammy Daybell’s father and a number of siblings of Tammy Daybell.

The statements introduced a number of the jurors to tears after weeks of listening to concerning the three deaths by witnesses.

Colby Ryan, Tylee’s older brother, mentioned he has misplaced his complete household and is now with out a mom, father, sister or brother. He mentioned the influence of shedding his siblings is “like a nuclear bomb dropping.”

“I misplaced the flexibility to look at Tylee and JJ develop up. I misplaced my relationship with my little brother which took years to construct. … I misplaced the flexibility to sit down with my little sister and speak and share our lives. So, in brief, I misplaced all the things I’ve ever recognized,” he mentioned.

Matthew Douglas, Tammy Daybell’s brother, mentioned she was “the emotional coronary heart and glue” of his siblings, and these occasions destroyed their household as they knew it.

He known as it a “unending nightmare,” and mentioned each time he felt some management across the grief of his sister’s dying, one thing new got here — Chad Daybell was remarried, Tammy Daybell’s physique was exhumed or there have been lacking kids.

He mentioned he felt like he was being tossed in a “low cost vacation snow globe” the place all the things was free.

Douglas additionally mentioned it damage that a number of the kids of Chad and Tammy Daybell reduce off ties with the Douglas household, selecting to defend their father.

Chad Daybell selected to not current any mitigation proof in the course of the sentencing section of his trial and confirmed he understood his lawyer, John Prior, had ready for that. He additionally selected to not make an allocution assertion. An allocution assertion is when a defendant is given an opportunity to talk earlier than their sentence is determined.

It was unknown whether or not he made that call in opposition to the recommendation of Prior, who nonetheless argued on behalf of his shopper.

Prior argued Lori Daybell modified who Chad Daybell was and known as her a “bomb” that introduced chaos to his life. He mentioned after assembly her was when the “loopy ideas” and “amplification of those spiritual beliefs” in Chad Daybell started.

Prior mentioned many of the allegations within the expenses relate to her, and those that relate to Chad Daybell’s actions are all about spiritual beliefs. Prior mentioned Chad Daybell was not current when the youngsters had been killed however that others had been.

Fremont County prosecutor Lindsay Blake mentioned every of the deaths occurred shortly after a supply of cash from them was arrange, Social Safety funds for the youngsters and life insurance coverage for Tammy Daybell.

She mentioned Chad Daybell manipulated folks round them with the aim of residing on a tropical island with Lori Daybell. He taught others that he may mark folks for dying and decide once they would die.

“It did not matter the age of the sufferer or who relied on them and liked them. In the event that they had been in the best way of Chad and his plan … or if there was cash to be gained for Lori and Chad, these people had been marked for dying,” she mentioned.