Richard Leavitt’s face appeared relaxed, though his feet and fingers were fidgeting, as he entered the execution chamber on a ...

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Paul Rhoades in 2011 and Richard Leavitt in 2012. Josh Tewalt, director of the Idaho Department of Correction, speaks following the failed lethal injection of death row prisoner Thomas Creech in ...

Former U.S. Attorney for Idaho Wendy Olson, now a partner at private law firm ... Paul Rhoades in 2011 and Richard Leavitt in 2012. In a sworn declaration filed with the lawsuit, Boone said she sought ...

Richard Leavitt, left, age 26, in a Bingham County courtroom during his 1985 trial for the killing of Danette Elg in Blackfoot, Idaho. He was found guilty and later executed in June 2012.