Chad Daybell sentenced to death in triple murder

An Idaho jury sentenced Chad Daybell to death for the 2019 murders of his first wife and second wife’s two children.
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[@priscilliacarter1144]

Death sentence should be immediately

[@shawnwilliam4653]

YES

[@tidusjecht9143]

​@@shawnwilliam4653 I completely agree. Like straight from the courtroom to meet his maker, a.k.a. satan.

[@normavillanuevamendoza2801]

Agree 100%

[@toothless2690]

I don't know hey the threat not knowing its your time that looms over you everyday for 10yrs.

[@SMcCaskill]

It should never be immediate, ever! Randall Dale Adams spent years on death row for a murder he didn't commit. He came within 48 hours of being executed before the Supreme Court intervened and ordered a second trial. The second time he got a no nonsense judge and the guy that actually commited the murder told the truth. The death sentence should never be immediate!

[@DaNiyaHodge]

Rip Tamara Douglas Daybell, Tylee Ashlyn Ryan, and Joshua Jaxon Vallow, you will be missed

[@RobinMarconeCassidyRN]

🙏

[@Francis-xl2gu]

Only Chad and Lori didn't think they would be !! Big mistake !!

[@Chrisy0850]

Lori hired her brother to kill her ex husband Charles too.. So she is definitely a serial killer..

[@toughpuppyx]

And Charles Vallow ❤️

[@rebeccanorris8687]

Lady Justice has spoken! And Lori should had gotten the same punishment.

[@e.e.harrison1357]

Lady Justice is blind. She knew.

[@innocentnemesis3519]

Not that I support capital punishment, but it’s pretty weasley Lori avoided the same fate.

[@donnahilton471]

Well, we know she didn't actually kill Tammy.

[@tysonjones8251]

No, but she orchestrated Charles vallow being shot and killed by Alex

[@snowwhite2524]

Lori refused to waive her right to a speedy trial which left the prosecution scrambling to get all of the evidence together. The prosecution failed to get the discovery handed over to the defense by the deadline which led Judge Boyce to take the DP off the table as a way to admonish the prosecution.

[@tidusjecht9143]

@@snowwhite2524 That may be true, but it's still horribly unjust.

[@SMcCaskill]

She still has at least one more trial to go through.

[@snowlothar45]

Now he sits on death row for 20 years while taxpayers foot the bill.

[@derfer007]

‘Merica!

[@saythankyou111]

And gets a law degree for free🇺🇸

[@jaynet5756]

​@saythankyou111 no he won't. People on death row don't get the same privileges as those serving life sentence. Chad will be in his cell 23 hours a day, whereas those with life sentences get stay out of their cell longer, as they get to have jobs or have schooling. None of those things are offered to death row inmates. They just Rot in a cell until its their time to die.

[@Chrisy0850]

20 years and the little boy had never the chance to get that old, being a young man, same with tylee, what a tragedy

[@bz3548]

He could be on death row 50 years, like the following inmate: Thomas Eugene Creech (born September 9, 1950) is an American serial killer who was convicted of two murders committed in 1974 and sentenced to death in Idaho. As of 2024, Creech was the longest-serving death row inmate in the state. His execution, scheduled for February 28, 2024, resulted in a failed attempt and was cancelled. He remains on death row.

[@Tboyhoot777]

Death sentence?? He'll die of old age!

[@maery-qx9nu]

This is forever heartbreaking. Those kids.💔

[@evilscorpio1981]

So he didn't see that coming I thought he was a prophet

[@missolesoul]

The Potato Prophet.

[@tidusjecht9143]

​​@@missolesoul And now he's finally going to be A Mashed Potato Prophet.

[@juliemiller5632]

Great comment! 😂

[@missolesoul]

​@tidusjecht9143 Really excellent comment. Very pithy.

[@zanetruman7473]

Justice is served! Next thing you know, this will be an American crime movie, the sociopaths are absolutely sick

[@missolesoul]

This case deserves to be a movie. This is the oddest case many will ever see in their lives hopefully. This and Delphi.

[@Good-Enough24]

He's evil just like his wife, she should have gotten the death sentence, too. My condolences and prayers to the families🙏🏻, but not those two evil monsters.

[@NakitaGarnes]

What is wrong with people

[@patrickthebutcher]

American Evangelical Christianity. That's what's wrong with people.

[@ranaskip]

Religion and mental illness, a dangerous combination.

[@GiraffeNana]

@NakitaGarries, Sweetie, I know that is a rhetorical question, and in some ways it would take too long to go into detail. In other ways, it's simple. People, or human nature, are selfish, self-absorbed, want to gratify themselves, are greedy, want notarity ...etc. What angers me on top of what they did, is they claimed to be Christians!

[@Devin7Eleven]

@@GiraffeNanaPeople can call themselves anything they want. Just because they call themselves something doesn’t make them that thing. Sorta like with people who think they’re the opposite gender.s

[@patrickthebutcher]

@@Devin7Eleven look up the no true Scotsman fallacy, then shut the fuk up

[@vernonengbino6186]

Both Lori and Chad should suffer the same punishment. They were partners in heinous crimes. They believed in the cult bull of the "end times". Her brother Coxx, Chad's first wife and the 2 kids end time came true.

[@americansunbeam]

Hello? Chad Daybell is a zombie. His responses are incredible.He is a very sick man., but I have no pity.

[@donnahilton471]

He's a dead man walking, that's for sure!

[@justjo7282]

He and Lori were the dark ones

[@laurierasha6754]

well you would think the profit would have seen that coming

[@Jean-qu1qw]

As slow as our justice system works - he'll still be alive 25 years from now...

[@JosephSettle-xe8mh]

Yeah but its miserablr he provably rather be dead….he on solitary

[@bz3548]

Or 50 years like this guy who’s been on death row since 1974. Thomas Eugene Creech (born September 9, 1950) is an American serial killer who was convicted of two murders committed in 1974 and sentenced to death in Idaho. As of 2024, Creech was the longest-serving death row inmate in the state. His execution, scheduled for February 28, 2024, resulted in a failed attempt and was cancelled. He remains on death row.

[@jamiemaslar658]

An absolute monster.

[@celyblack3609]

He will live a long life in prison, with 3 meals a day, health care, and a bed to sleep in and die of old age before they get around to it

[@mollym169]

I will forever remember this case

[@Chrisy0850]

This and Chris Watts

[@tshaffer9681]

Lori should have got the death sentence too.!!!!

[@RB01.10]

They’ll be on death row for 20+ years before it’s administered if it is at all.

[@HANNIBALBARCA247]

They’ll be on death row for the next 40 years. What a joke.

[@kateskeys]

I can’t process Chad’s behavior

[@tshaffer9681]

He's a psychopath. Lori is just as bad.

[@allygonzalez7206]

@@tshaffer9681and a narcissist

[@MrCageinblood]

He will be on deathroo for twenty years

[@vanessapebley1374]

I thought he had visions. Did he see this coming?

[@kcotis]

Apparently he had NO clue!! So much for his "visionary" abilities. So completely evil, not to mention stupid to think he and Lori could get away with multiple murders and just go to Hawaii and live like they had not done anything wrong at all. No, he never "saw" any of this coming. I don't think this POS could see his own a#% holding a mirror behind him!! Hope he's enjoying his 23 hr. a day lock up. It sure ain't Hawaii....

[@misspuppa]

Happy Sunday News for me 🎉

[@msnatty3277]

I really don’t like the death penalty but this one case that I didn’t have an objection. No regard for human life.

[@kateskeys]

What REALLY happened to Alex?

[@missyrose2154]

Still angry their own mother didn’t get the same sentence

[@jamiemartin3787]

I am shoked that abc actually didn't blame this on Donald J TRUMP ... Thank you for at least showing the families some respect ...

[@KayXoXo4]

Lori should have gotten the DP too. Smfh

[@sprangbonnie869]

I haven’t heard a death sentence in so long.

[@irishgurl3078]

Lori should get the death penalty too.

[@RedRoadRunner23]

Justice.

[@davidmcdonald9374]

Thank you justice department 🙏

[@elisadelaurenti2516]

Finally.

[@Caitlinmichellepeters]

I can’t wait to hear Chad and Lori’s next phone call after that DP conviction..

[@suzannepoole8617]

Such a sad story. Another example of how people can get caught up in twisted belief systems. How is a very good question. There were a lot of people caught up in Daybell's nonsense.

[@Devin7Eleven]

Neuroticism. Schizophrenic people will believe in weird things.

[@Hippieskippie]

This was one of the most horrific crimes that will definitely go down in history

[@sonyagraske376]

SENTENCE .... NOW.... TO THE SENTENCING.

[@helenwalker5704]

Hopefully his death sentence will be carried out sooner rather than later. A monster man. RIP Tammy, Tyler and Joshua.

[@helpyourcattodrive]

Not surprised.

[@katherinekerbow8344]

I could watch this story over and over.....thank you so much prosecution and jury members....this is the murder of children.... not to mention poor Tammy and Lori's husband and sweet JJ's father.....so sad and senseless......

[@kelynopel1191]

yet Lori will avoid death because of her appearance. Karla Homolka 2.0, women are the masterminds but a 2 tiered justice system allows them to avoid similar punishment

[@christined9210]

Thank you

[@linda-rt7dr]

Why should he be able to appeal what the hell . And I agree when death sentence is declared it should be carried out immediately. What the hell is wrong with our justice system.

[@RB01.10]

Everyone on death row is entitled to appeals, not to mention many people on death row were found to be innocent.

[@johnnydoe3603]

It’s Sad that Lori’s Brother didn’t make it, for some Justice. They just let him go because the State was Pro-Gun and don’t Question Murders. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@JohnCena-nw5cz]

Don’t think being bro 2nd amendment lets people murder 💀 a Joe Biden quote right there with how dumb and worthless it was

[@cyndybutler7330]

He’s burning in hell same hell every democrat will see joe Biden is satans chew toy all that back what’s happening in America deserves hell

[@Americansiciliangirl]

But the state that was anti gun still has murderers

[@rt-420]

⁠@@Americansiciliangirl I don’t think Idaho is an anti gun state.

[@rt-420]

@@cyndybutler7330 Punctuation may help your sentence make sense.

[@e.e.harrison1357]

could Lori Vallow get the death penalty in Az?

[@h2oquality2010]

No.

[@OshyTheGamer]

She will be spared of The Death Sentence

[@snowkracker]

Some people sit on death row forever so big deal. Now if it were carried out immediately in the same manner that the kids were harmed then maybe that would be better. Kinda messed up though that Lorie didn’t get the same sentence.

[@armandofonseca5988]

Hasta la by by!

[@miryamishot]

How is amazon still selling books written by this monster?

[@user-so9se5qb8l]

Justice for all those who lost their lives because of this man and the families of the victims too 💔😢💔😢😡😠😡😠😡😠😠

[@user-so9se5qb8l]

How could this magnificent young woman and mother who loved these children so much become a monster? He brainwashed this woman. It breaks my heart for her only son that she still has left and for the grandparents and the mother and father of this woman Lorie V.😢💔😢💔😢💔😢💔

[@terryleekaly2680]

What meds is he on

[@gailjames6489]

Crazy that this all happened for love, money, sex. Sad that they felt they had to take it to this level to get what they wanted...too many reasons to not go this direction. 😢

[@kcotis]

Looks like Chad's "visions" of what he and Lori and Alex could do and get away with have failed him miserably. He's no prophet, just a self-important, self- serving, despicable excuse for a husband, father or man.

[@tshaffer9681]

A sorry excuse for a human being.

[@giearomin2738]

Some prophet he is can't even try to defend himself obviously guilty😮

[@ranaskip]

Those that believe in God will tell non believers that if there is no God there can be no morality..What a joke.

[@FLMAMACBEAR617]

Lori used chad & her brother to pull of these ridiculous crimes !!

[@villanessa]

Justice is served. Goodnight

[@bionettarroyo409]

Awesome

[@Room1sixtyfive]

"doomsday" huh?, why is he still alive then?.

[@southerncaltattooedbiker3643]

Let's see if he writes any new books and all that money can go to the family members of JJ and Tylle Ryan they both don't have any right to ever get out of prison except in a wooden box‼️ R.I.P JJ, Tylle and Mrs Daybell 💔🕊️🥀🌹💖

[@doriscastillo8020]

He doesn't smile because he knows his faith, he is going to a big room all by himself 24/7, until the day.

[@tidusjecht9143]

A big room ?

[@ShadowKing1993]

Maybe we will get lucky and he will not make it in prison. Waste of taxpayer's money

[@MyKali2009]

Devil!

[@seer1]

Chad yer got 10 more years ....Breathe Deeply enjoy every meal. 👀😳

[@TanyaB2024]

👍

[@skipwaldent8465]

Slime Monsters

[@radracing3370]

He created his own doomsday

[@christined9210]

Yes

[@HelenaHiebert-rh5dr]

Wouldn't it be more painful for him to be in jail for life. Instead off being died. If he's died he can't think about what he did

[@juliemiller5632]

I don't think he cares about what he did. Psychopaths have no empathy.

[@tidusjecht9143]

​@@juliemiller5632 Exactly.

[@patrickthebutcher]

Normally I would feel like giggling over a sentence like this was wrong... But not today satan,.. not today.

[@cagneyconner5811]

Enjoy your next thirty years on the D row

[@YourSecretIsSafeWithMe]

😂

[@tearl5676]

Good thing his trial wasn't in California or New York or he would be a free man today.

[@careyhodes2965]

Unless your President Trump dropping a piece of paper on ground they would convict him on that too.

[@islandgirl1818]

Don't forget Florida. Florida always lets killers go

[@pastorXal]

​@@careyhodes2965 🤣 Trump's been cheating and lying publicly since the 1980's. He deserves the legal chaos of his own creation.

[@suzannepoole8617]

More likely he would have faced convict justice for killing children.

[@user-rr1jw9cz1u]

I feared they would skate because they killed for religion.

[@nadiamccall4311]

As a loyal Republican, Chad will be pardoned by Trump. Trump has promised this to all his loyal followers, to pardon them even if they murder or rape.

[@markgeiger9404]

lol, must be a lefty nut job. Always takes things out of context to fit your whacko agenda. He was speaking about the Jan 6th supporters but you probably already knew that, it just doesn’t fit your narrative. You must really love all the wars going on, since it was your messiahs foreign policy that started them all.

[@danidiaz2377]

Probably true all these republicans seem to be and support criminal activity

[@tshaffer9681]

Oh for Pete's sake.!!!! That's silly.

[@Moofie-rc5dd]

he is innocent

[@ZoeiiZiZZles]

Hahaha not much of a prophet