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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang and agencies

Idaho jurors mull death penalty for man convicted over ‘doomsday’ killings

Man in blue shirt and yellow tie sits in court
Chad Daybell in court after jurors returned a guilty verdict. Photograph: Kyle Green/AP

Jurors in Idaho on Friday were deciding whether to deliver the death sentence to Chad Daybell, the 55-year-old man convicted of killing his wife and his then girlfriend’s two children over beliefs in the extremist religious concept of doomsday.

Deliberations began a day after jurors found Daybell guilty of murdering 49-year-old Tammy Daybell, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and seven-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow in 2019.

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