A new bill would make the firing squad Idaho's primary means of execution, after the state recently restored it as a backup ...

I see this bill as being less problematic with appeals in the courts,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, who proposed the ...

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

A newly introduced bill would make death by firing squad the main method of execution in Idaho. US Congress Democrats help ...

Idaho is bringing back the firing squad. Lethal injection has been the legally specified method. But shortages of the ...

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Idaho lawmakers are moving to bolster their newly restored firing squad as the state's primary means of execution with eight current death row inmates and the capital murder trial of student ...

Idaho’s Republicans agree. Skaug told the Idaho Statesman news service his firing-squad bill was about offering “dignity for all”. “It is retribution, for the families that lost someone to ...