BOISE, IDAHO — Two days after a jury sentenced Chad Daybell to
death for three murders, jurors spoke publicly for the first time about their death penalty decision.
“Yes, I was one of 12 people that said somebody should die,” juror Daynna Skiver said during an interview Monday with KSL 5. “I don’t think I’d be a very empathetic person if I said that didn’t weigh very heavily on me—it does—but I think it was the right decision for the heinous crimes that he committed and orchestrated.”
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Skiver, however, said she left the trial convinced Daybell orchestrated the killings.
“You knew that he was the planner, the puppet master,” Skiver said. “He was leading everybody.”
Skiver said she saw photos and heard testimony that she will never forget, and she struggles to contemplate what happened to the victims, including J.J.
“I think about those poor children and that poor J.J.,” Skiver said as she turned emotional. “His mind trusting a human being more than anybody in the world and here they are doing this to you.”
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Two days after a jury sentenced Chad Daybell to death for three murders, jurors spoke publicly for the first time about their death penalty decision.
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