Idaho previously had a firing squad option on the books but ... Oklahoma and South Carolina currently have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, according to ...

The cost of implementing a bill that seeks to make the firing squad Idaho’s backup execution method has more than doubled since it was last reviewed by the state prisons system, according to a ...

Only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina currently have laws allowing firing squads if other execution ... squad is, in my opinion, beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho.” The ...

Just last year, Little, with the backing of a supermajority of the Republican-dominated Idaho Legislature, signed a law that made a firing squad the state’s backup execution method when lethal ...

Last year, Idaho lawmakers passed a law authorizing execution by firing squad when lethal injection is not available. Prison officials have not yet written a standard operating policy for the use ...

Those sentenced to death in Idaho could soon face execution by firing squad under a new bill before the state legislature. Lawmaker Bruce Skaug introduced the bill last week calling for the ...

Against that backdrop, Idaho lawmakers passed a law authorizing execution by firing squad when lethal injection is not available. Prison officials have not yet written a standard operating policy ...

KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an ...