List of individuals executed in Utah

Table columns:
#
Name
Date of execution
Method of execution
Victim(s)
Governor

Table rows:
cells: –
Patsowits[1] and his brother[2]
Spring 1850
garroting
Patsowits killed an emigrant settler and his brother had made several death threats[2]
—
cells: –
An emigrant[3]
1850
Beheading
—
cells: 1 2
Antelope and Long Hair[4]
September 15, 1854
hanging
Two sons of a Mormon bishop in Cedar Valley[4][5]
Brigham Young
cells: 3
Thomas H. Ferguson[6]
October 28, 1858[7]
hanging
Alexander Carpenter[8]
Alfred Cumming
cells: 4
William Cockcroft[7]
September 21, 1861
firing squad
Robert Brown
vacant
cells: –
"Unknown Man"[9]
1862
firing squad
Unknown person
cells: 5
Jason R. Luce[10]
January 12, 1864
firing squad
Samuel R. Bunton[11]
James Duane Doty
cells: 6
Robert Sutton[12]
October 10, 1866
firing squad
Frederick White[8]
Charles Durkee
cells: 7
Chauncy W. Millard[12]
January 29, 1869
firing squad
Harlem P. Swett[10]
vacant
cells: 8
John Doyle Lee
March 23, 1877
firing squad
Mountain Meadows massacre
George W. Emery
cells: 9
Wallace Wilkerson[13]
May 16, 1879
firing squad (botched)[1]
William Baxter
cells: 10
Frederick Hopt (a.k.a. Fred Welcome)[14]
August 11, 1887
firing squad
John Franklin Turner
Caleb Walton West
cells: 11
Enoch Davis[15]
September 14, 1894
firing squad
Enoch's wife
cells: –
An American Indian man[2]
1896
A white woman
cells: 12
Charles H. Thiede[16]
August 7, 1896
hanging
Thiede's wife
Heber Manning Wells
cells: 13
Pat Coughlin[17]
December 15, 1896
firing squad
Deputy Sherriff Dawes and Constable Stagg
cells: 14
Peter Mortensen[18]
November 20, 1903
firing squad
James R. Hay[19]
cells: 15
Frank Rose[18]
April 22, 1904
firing squad
Rose's wife
cells: 16
J. J. Morris[9]
April 30, 1912
hanging[5]
Morris' wife[20]
William Spry
cells: 17
Jules C. E. Szirmay (a.k.a. Jules Zirmay)[9]
May 22, 1912
firing squad
A school boy
cells: 18
Harry Thorne[21]
September 26, 1912
firing squad
A grocery clerk
cells: 19
Thomas Riley[9]
October 24, 1912
firing squad
A grocery clerk
cells: 20
Frank Romeo[21]
February 20, 1913
firing squad
Albert Jenkins[22]
cells: 21
Joe Hill
November 19, 1915
firing squad
John G. Morrison and his son Arlington
cells: 22
Howard DeWeese[23]
May 24, 1918
firing squad
His wife
Simon Bamberger
cells: 23
John Borich[23]
January 20, 1919
firing squad
A woman for insurance money
cells: 24
Steve Maslich[9]
January 20, 1922
firing squad
A man in Salt Lake City
Charles R. Mabey
cells: 25
Nick Oblizalo[9]
June 9, 1922
firing squad
A man in Salt Lake City
cells: 26
George H. Gardner[24]
August 31, 1923
firing squad
Joseph Irvine and a police officer
cells: 27
Omer R. Woods[25]
January 18, 1924
firing squad
Woods' invalid wife
cells: 28
Henry C. Hett (a.k.a. George Allen)[25]
February 20, 1925
firing squad
Police sergeant Pierce
George Dern
cells: 29
Pedro Cano [26]
May 19, 1925
firing squad
A woman in Park City
cells: 30
Ralph W. Seyboldt[27]
January 15, 1926
firing squad
Patrolman David H Crowther
cells: 31
Edward McGowan [28]
February 5, 1926
firing squad
Bob Blevins (and raped his wife and daughters)[28][29]
cells: 32
Delbert Green[30]
July 10, 1936
firing squad
Green's foster father/uncle James Green, mother-in-law/aunt, and wife
Henry H. Blood
cells: 33
John W. Deering[31]
October 31, 1938
firing squad
Oliver R. Meredith Jr.
cells: 34
Donald Lawton Condit[32]
July 30, 1942
firing squad
Harold A. Thorne
Herbert B. Maw
cells: 35
Robert Walter Avery[33]
February 5, 1943
firing squad
Detective Hoyt L. Gates
cells: 36
Austin Cox Jr.[34]
June 19, 1944
firing squad
Judge Lewis V. Trueman (also killed two other men and two women)
cells: 37
James Joseph Roedl[35]
July 13, 1945
firing squad
Abigail Agnes Williams
cells: 38
Eliseo J. Mares Jr.[36]
September 10, 1951
firing squad
Jack D. Stallings
J. Bracken Lee
cells: 39
Ray Dempsey Gardner[35]
September 29, 1951
firing squad
Shirley Jean Gretzinger
cells: 40
Don Jesse Neal[37]
July 1, 1955
firing squad
Sgt. Owen T. Farley
cells: 41 42
Verne Alfred Braasch and Melvin Leroy Sullivan[38]
May 11, 1956
firing squad
Howard Manzione[39]
cells: 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
cells: 44
James W. Rodgers[40]
March 30, 1960
firing squad[41]
Charles Merrifield[42]
cells: 45
Gary Gilmore
January 17, 1977
firing squad
Ben Bushnell and Max David Jensen
Scott M. Matheson
cells: 46
Dale Selby Pierre
August 28, 1987
lethal injection
Stanley Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt
Norman Bangerter
cells: 47
Arthur Bishop
June 10, 1988
lethal injection
Alonzo Daniels, Kim Peterson, Danny Davis, Troy Ward, and Graeme Cunningham
cells: 48
William Andrews
July 30, 1992
lethal injection
Stanley Walker, Michelle Ansley, and Carol Naisbitt
cells: 49
John Albert Taylor
January 27, 1996
firing squad
Charla Nicole King
Michael Leavitt
cells: 50
Joseph Mitchell Parsons
October 15, 1999
lethal injection
Richard Lynn Ernest
cells: 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

Questions about this table:
originalText: who was the last person executed in utah
answer: answerTexts: Ronnie Lee Gardner