Idaho’s push to bring back firing squads, has faced backlash. The state’s major construction union has said it will not participate. Opponents of the method paint it as barbaric.

Firing squad was already allowed in Idaho. Bill would make lethal injection the back-up execution method. In 2023, ...

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 previously had a firing squad for executions, which it adopted as an option in 1982, but never used it. That option was removed from state law in 2009 after the U.S. Supreme Court ...

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 lawmakers have moved to reinstate the firing squad as a lethal injection alternative for death row inmates By Michael Ruiz Fox News Published March 23, 2023 7:00am EDT ...

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.

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 ...

Idaho lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would allow execution by firing squad, according to the legislature’s website. State Rep. Bruce D. Skaug confirmed the move in a statement to CNN ...

I had a traffic ticket and the prosecutor went after me harder than you went after Kohberger,” wrote one reviewer.