If passed into law, the bill could make Idaho the only state to have death by firing squad as the primary death penalty ...

In the moments after correctional officers raided their units, dozens of men incarcerated at Idaho’s highest-security prison ...

Idaho House Republicans on Monday advanced a bill that would make death by firing squad the main death penalty method in ...

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

“Going forward, we hope the state will stop pursuing death warrants before Idaho Correction officials know whether they can carry out executions,” Pizzuto’s lawyer, Deborah Czuba, said at the time.

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 ...

“Going forward, we hope the state will stop pursuing death warrants before Idaho Correction officials know whether they can carry out executions,” Pizzuto’s lawyer, Deborah Czuba, said at ...