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       ~ Chad Daybell, (ID) ~
       By: BuzzC Date: June 1, 2024, 11:16 pm
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       Chad Daybell Sentenced to Death for Killing Wife, Girlfriend's 2
       Children--
       Saturday, June 1st, 2024
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       A jury in Idaho on Saturday unanimously agreed that convicted
       killer Chad Daybell deserves the death penalty for the gruesome
       murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children —
       ending a grim case that began in 2019 with a search for two
       missing children.
       The 55-year-old Daybell, wearing a dress shirt and tie, sat with
       his hands in his lap at the defense table. He showed no emotion
       when learning he would face the death penalty for the murders of
       Tammy Daybell; 16-year-old Tylee Ryan; and 7-year-old Joshua
       “JJ” Vallow.
       The mother of the children is Lori Vallow Daybell, whom Chad
       Daybell married shortly after his wife's death. Vallow Daybell
       was convicted last year in the three murders and is now awaiting
       trial in Arizona, charged with murder in connection with the
       shooting death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. Charles
       Vallow was JJ’s father.
       The case began in 2019, when a family member called police.
       Investigators soon realized both children were missing, and a
       multistate search ensued. Nearly a year later, their remains
       were found buried on Chad Daybell's property. Tylee’s DNA was
       later found on a pickaxe and shovel in a shed on the property,
       and JJ’s body was wrapped in trash bags and duct tape,
       prosecutors have said.
       During a nearly two-month-long trial, prosecutors said Chad
       Daybell, a self-published author who wrote doomsday-laced
       fiction, promoted unusual spiritual beliefs including
       apocalyptic prophecies and tales of possession by evil spirits
       in order to justify the killings.
       Daybell’s defense attorney, John Prior, argued during the trial
       that there wasn’t enough evidence to tie Daybell to the
       killings, and suggested Vallow Daybell’s older brother, Alex
       Cox, was the culprit. Cox died in late 2019 and was never
       charged, and Vallow Daybell was convicted last year and
       sentenced to life in prison without parole.
       During the sentencing hearing, Prior asked the jurors to judge
       Daybell on his life before he met Vallow Daybell, describing her
       as a bomb that blew him off the trajectory of an otherwise
       wholesome life. But Daybell also declined to offer any
       mitigating evidence during the sentencing hearing. Mitigating
       evidence is often used to encourage jurors to have sympathy for
       a defendant in an effort to show that a life sentence would be
       more appropriate than capital punishment.
       Family members of the victims gave emotional statements to the
       jurors. JJ Vallow’s grandmother, Kay Woodcock, tearfully
       described how the 7-year-old would show empathy and compassion
       to others through soft touches and by frequently asking if those
       around him were OK. She also said Tylee was a doting big sister,
       and that it warmed her heart to see them together.
       “I can’t express just how much I wish for more time to create
       memories,” Woodcock said, beginning to weep.
       Vallow Daybell’s oldest child, Colby Ryan, described what it was
       like to lose his entire family. His father died years earlier.
       “My three kids will never know the kindness of Tylee’s heart or
       JJ’s silly and goofy personality ... The only way I could
       describe the impact of their lives being lost is like a nuclear
       bomb dropping,” he said. “It’s not an overstatement to say that
       I lost everything.”
       To impose the death penalty, the jurors had to unanimously find
       that Daybell met at least one of the “aggravating circumstances”
       that state law says qualifies someone for capital punishment.
       They also had to agree that those aggravating factors weren’t
       outweighed by any mitigating factors that might have lessened
       his culpability or justified a lesser sentence.
       Idaho law allows for execution by lethal injection or firing
       squad, though firing squad executions have never been used in
       the state.
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