Keith Eugene Wells (May 11, 1962 – January 6, 1994) was an American murderer convicted of the 1990 murders of John Justad and Brandi Rains in Boise, Idaho. He was executed in 1994 by the state of Idaho at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution via lethal injection, only one year and nine months after having been sentenced to death by Judge Gerald Schroeder. Wells was the first person to be executed in Idaho since 1957, and only the tenth since Idaho gained statehood. He chose not to appeal the death sentence, although it was appealed on his behalf. The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed against his wishes. Early life Keith Eugene Wells was born on May 11, 1962, in Moab, Utah, the sixth of eight children born to Paul and Loral Wells. He was raised in Pocatello, Idaho, by his family, who were close-knit Mormons. Wells started experimenting with alcohol and cigarettes from the age of 4, and was smoking pot by the age of 10 or 11. Court reports showed Wells got in trouble at grade school, where he got into fighting and truancy. He also stole money and household items from family and friends. By the time Wells had reached ninth grade, he had a drug problem, with the habit costing him $200 a month for amphetamines and marijuana. Between the ages of 13 and 14, he was regularly stealing to pay for his drug addiction. According to Wells, between 1975 and 1978, he was involved in a total of thirty thefts and assaults, resulting in him getting in trouble with the law or being arrested. Wells was first jailed at the age of 15 for vandalism. At age 17, he was imprisoned and later released, but would not stay out of prison for long. He was released from prison a total of three times for a variety of different offenses. Murders In December 1989, Wells, who by now was a convicted robber and parole violator, was paroled for the final time. A year later, he earned minimum supervision and was required to only meet with his parole officer once every six months. On December 20, 1990, a customer entered the Rose Pub in Boise, Idaho in the early hours. When no one came to serve them, they looked around the bar and found the bodies of two people in a back room. They were