BOISE - The Idaho Department of Correction served inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades with a death warrant today as ordered by Seventh District Judge Jon J. Shindurling.

The warrant orders that Rhoades be executed on Nov. 18 at 8 a.m.

Per IDOC policy, Rhoades was immediately moved to an isolation cell at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. Rhoades, 54, has been incarcerated at the facility south of Boise since March 1988.

Rhoades is convicted of first-degree murder for kidnapping and raping two women in Bonneville County. 

He is also convicted of a first-degree murder and kidnapping in Bingham County.

Fourteen offenders are under the sentence of death in Idaho - 13 men and one woman.

Twenty-seven people have been executed in Idaho since 1864. The last execution was in 1994.  The inmate, Keith Eugene Wells, was executed by lethal injection after he voluntarily stopped appealing his death sentence. Prior to Wells' execution, there had been no executions in Idaho since 1957.