the Office of Attorney General has negotiated an agreement under which Faron E. Lovelace will serve a fixed life sentence for the 1995 kidnapping and murder of Jeremy Scott.

the Office of Attorney General has negotiated an agreement under which Faron E. Lovelace will serve a fixed life sentence for the 1995 kidnapping and murder of Jeremy Scott. Lovelace also agreed to waive all direct appeals in his case. As a result of the agreement, the Attorney General's Office has withdrawn its notice of intent to seek the death penalty in Lovelace's pending resentencing.
Lovelace accepted the agreement in First District Court in Bonner County. District Judge Steven Verby then sentenced Lovelace to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In September of 1997, Lovelace was tried in First District Court in Bonner County. Lovelace represented himself, presented a statement to the jury wherein he admitted the elements of the state's case. Lovelace asked the jury to find him guilty and requested that the judge sentence him to death. On September 11, 1997, the jury returned guilty verdicts. On December 17, 1997, First District Judge James F. Judd sentenced Lovelace to death.
On July 23, 2003, and November 20, 2003, the Idaho Supreme Court affirmed Lovelace's conviction and vacated the death sentence. The Supreme Court sent the case back to district court for sentencing pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Ring v. Arizona. In the Ring case, the nation's highest court held that the question of whether the aggravating factors necessary for a death sentence were present in a case is a factual determination that must be made by a jury, rather than a judge.