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Idaho executes inmate for woman’s killing in 1984

By Rebecca Boone
Published June 12, 2012 11:05pm ET
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Idaho executes inmate for woman’s killing in 1984
Flags fly outside the Idaho Maximum Security Institution following the execution of Richard Leavitt on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 in Kuna, Idaho. Prison officials declared Leavitt, 53, dead at 10:25 a.m. Tuesday by lethal injection at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. It was only Idaho’s second execution in 17 years. Leavitt was convicted of stabbing 31-year-old Danette Elg, of Blackfoot, in 1984. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Greg Kreller) MANDATORY CREDIT | Greg Kreller

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The six correctional officers, wearing surgical masks and stationed three to a side like pallbearers, lifted the inmate off the gurney and strapped him to the execution table inside the Idaho state prison on Tuesday.

Others attached intravenous lines to Richard Leavitt’s arms and electrodes to the convicted killer’s chest and stomach to measure his breathing and heart rate.

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