Chad Daybell was sentenced to death Saturday upon the recommendation of the jury that convicted him of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges in the killings of his first wife and two children of his second wife.
Daybell had a blank expression as Boyce sentenced him to death.
In his opening statement to the jury on Friday, prosecutor Rob Wood asked them to consider aggravating factors that would make Daybell eligible for the death penalty.
Daybell was also convicted of insurance fraud stemming from life insurance policies that allegedly paid him money after his first wife’s death.
Additionally, Wood told the jury, the murders of the three victims were “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity.”.
And if it has been, you must decide if, under these circumstances, imposition of the death penalty would be just or unjust.”.
Tammy Daybell was initially believed to have died in her sleep, and Chad Daybell remarried less than three weeks after her death in 2019. »
