Rhoades

(AP) - Idaho prison officials say the execution of Paul Ezra Rhoades for his role in the 1987 murders of  two women cost the state more than $50,000. Rhoades died by lethal injection Nov. 18 at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, marking the state's first execution in 17 years.

Paul Ezra Rhoades was executed by lethal injection at 9:15 Friday morning.

A federal appeals court has refused to stop the scheduled execution of Idaho inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades.

The attorneys for condemned Idaho inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades have filed an emergency appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court in hopes of staving off the execution set for Friday morning. In a 33-page brief to the court, Oliver Loewy and the other attorneys with the Federal Defenders of Idaho reiterated Rhoades' contention that Idaho's new lethal injection protocol is likely to be botched, causing him t

A federal magistrate judge has denied a stay of execution for convicted killer Paul Ezra Rhoades. The 43-page decision from Magistrate Judge Ronald Bush came down late Monday afternoon.

Paul Ezra Rhoades sits across the hallway from the room in which he is scheduled to die in less than a  month. His isolation cell is quiet as a worker brings in a tray of medicine. The death chamber is silent, save for the faint hum of fluorescent lights...