Idaho’s approval last month of a new law adding the firing squad as an execution method for death row inmates could one day play a role in the case of Moscow homicides suspect Bryan Kohberger ...

Idaho is poised to allow firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can't get lethal-injection drugs, under a new bill. News Sports Business Life Opinion Advertise Obituaries ...

Idaho is poised to allow firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can't get lethal-injection drugs, under a bill the Legislature passed Monday with a veto-proof majority.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little last Wednesday signed into law House Bill 37, which will make the firing squad the default method on July 1, 2026. Both chambers of the Idaho Legislature widely approved the ...

Idaho Sen. Doug Ricks, a Republican who co-sponsored that state’s firing squad bill, told his fellow senators Monday (3/20) that the state’s difficulty in finding lethal injection drugs could ...

A draft bill in Idaho would allow firing squads if lethal injection is unavailable. A December execution was called off when the state couldn't get the drugs.

Idaho firing squad bill forms friction between attorney general, prison officials March 8, 2023 Updated Wed., March 8, 2023 at 5:05 p.m. The Idaho Capitol building shown in Boise.

The firing squad option was removed in 2009 after never being used, but in recent years Idaho has struggled to obtain the drugs needed to carry out death sentences.

Death Penalty. Idaho Likely To Authorize Execution by Firing Squad "The firing squad, in my opinion, is beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho," said one state senator.

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's bill to require a firing squad as a method of execution when lethal injection is unavailable is now headed to the governor's desk after a 24-11 vote Monday in the Senate ...

Idaho’s return to firing squads is only the latest sign that lethal injection is an unreliable protocol, said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University who studies the death penalty.

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's bill to require a firing squad as a method of execution when lethal injection is unavailable is now headed to the governor's desk after a 24-11 vote Monday in the Senate. The ...