Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death following six weeks of harrowing testimony of his high-profile murder trial in Idaho – and he could die by firing squad thanks to a new law.
Daybell, 55, a self-proclaimed “doomsday cult” prophet with extreme religious beliefs who set out to lead a group of 144,000 people to be saved during the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in 2020, is now the ninth person on death row in Idaho after a jury found him guilty last week. Prosecutors said it was Daybell’s “desire for sex, power, and money” that led to the 2019 murders of his wife Tammy Daybell, and the two youngest children of his then-girlfriend Lori Vallow - Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow - whose remains were found buried in his Rexburg home in June 2020, nine months after they went missing.
