Bree Derrick is now at the helm of Idaho’s prison system, stepping into a key leadership role as the department navigates ...

IDOC spent years trying to find lethal injection drugs, only to have their use-by date lapse while contending with delays, ...

Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for the quadruple murders. Death by a firing squad is an option in ...

The state’s preferred method is lethal injection, at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution near Kuna, with a firing squad as the backup method with a law that took effect in July 2023.

Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses ... Lawmakers passed a new law this year that will make firing squads the state's primary method of execution, starting next year.

Though there are no upcoming executions currently scheduled in South Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho and Mississippi also allow executions by firing squad. On May 1, the Mississippi Supreme Court ...

Death by a firing squad is an option in Idaho, although the state hasn’t carried out an execution since 2012. Hippler said the jury will consider the penalty – life in prison without the ...

Following the state’s failure to execute Creech, the Republican-controlled Idaho Legislature passed a bill this year, which Republican Gov. Brad Little signed into law, to make a firing squad ...

Though there are no upcoming executions currently scheduled in South Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho and Mississippi also allow executions by firing squad. On May 1, the Mississippi Supreme Court ...