state's first execution via lethal injection. For nearly eighteen years, Wells remained the only person to be executed in Idaho since the reinstatement of the death penalty. The next execution in Idaho did not occur until 2011, when Paul Ezra Rhoades, a convicted spree killer, was executed, also by lethal injection. Wells remains the first of only three people to be executed in Idaho since the reinstatement of the death penalty. He is the only person to have been executed in Idaho voluntarily. See also Capital punishment in Idaho Capital punishment in the United States List of people executed in Idaho References 1962 births 1994 deaths 20th-century executions by Idaho 20th-century executions of American people American people convicted of murder Executed people from Utah People executed for murder People executed by Idaho by lethal injection People convicted of murder by Idaho People from Moab, Utah