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 bill the Legislature passed Monday with a veto-proof majority.

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 ...

Though Kohberger’s plea was likely to spell out how he carried out the killing, it remains unclear whether he will ever ...

Outraged family members of the slain University of Idaho students said they will fight the plea deal accepted by Bryan ...

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 ...

The Utah Department of Corrections is now officially preparing for the firing squad execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, the 67-year-old inmate sentenced to death row for the kidnapping and murder of ...

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.

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.

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.

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 new firing squad law also included a one-time estimated cost of $750,000 for the prison system to renovate a cell block at the maximum security prison for the new backup execution method.