Wells to death. Appeals and confession In February 1993, Wells asked to drop all his appeals in court and just allow his execution to proceed. He said he did not want to spend the remainder of his life in a cell, and had already tried to commit suicide following the murder conviction. He also maintained that delaying his execution would only cause pain to his own family as well as the families of his victims. He eventually confessed to the crime and admitted to the real reason behind the killings. From death row, Wells did a telephone interview claiming he wanted to clean his conscience and admit the truth. At the time of the murders, Wells had been on parole for armed robbery and was full of frustration and anger. According to Wells, he left his home on the night of December 19, 1990, knowing that he would kill someone that night. He had no real reason for selecting his victims but admitted neither provoked nor angered him. He arrived at the Boise Rose Pub armed with a baseball bat which he left at the back of the bar upon arrival. After spending over two hours at the tavern, he retrieved the baseball bat and bludgeoned Justad and Rains. First, he killed Justad as he came out of the bathroom, then turned on Rains when she came to see what was happening. He later disposed of the bat by burning it in a fireplace. He stated "it was time for them to die." Execution In the early hours of January 6, 1994, Wells was executed via lethal injection at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, Idaho. Ninety minutes before the execution began, he apologized to the families of his victims for the first time. The execution began at 12:40 a.m. and Wells was pronounced dead at 12:50 a.m. He had no official final words. His last meal consisted of whole lobster, well-done prime rib, fried potatoes, salad with tomatoes and onions and Italian dressing, two pints of ice cream, a half gallon of milk, a two-liter bottle of soda and two apple fritters. It was the state of Idaho's first execution in over thirty-six years, since October 18, 1957, when Raymond Allen Snowden was hanged for murder. It was also the first execution to occur in Idaho since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, as well as the