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>> reporter: the state painting daybell as a self-proclaimed doomsday prophet. >> money, power, and sex. that's what the defendant cared about. >> reporter: saying he and laurie used twisted logic to validate the murders, calling their victims zombies with dark energy that needed to be castedr out. >> i know for a fact that my children are happy and busy in the spirit world. >> dana, the appeals process could take decades. but if this ruling does stand, do we know how the death sentence could be carried out? >> yeah, we do. so idaho law allows for execution by lethal injection or firing squad,...

Petition for commutation. >> reporter: after gardner was executed the relatives of some of his victims spoke to reporters. >> he's gone now and we don't have to worry about him escaping and killing some other innocent person. >> we all, i think, felt the same. just kind of relief that it was over with now. >> reporter: gardner's family stood vigil outside the prison releasing balloons at the time of his execution. >> it's sad that he's gone, but he's free now. >> you know, i just don't agree with the death penalty. i think they committed a murder, just like he did. two wrongs don't make a righ...

His brother said he chose death by firing squad because he had gunned down his victims and figured that was an appropriate punishment. the sentence was carried out shortly after midnight and announced by the utah state attorney general. witnesses to the execution said it went very swiftly, very suddenly and it was all over very shortly. savannah? >> i think you may have mentioned this, george, but no longer do inmates have the option of firing squad, right? but he was grandfathered in, so to speak? >> reporter: yeah. and there are actually about four other inmates who are in a similar state. t...