Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

Idaho Governor Brad Little has designated the firing squad as the state's primary execution method, effective July 1, 2026.

Idaho will have a new state prisons director for the first time since 2018 after its current chief leaves for the private ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.

If the governor is squeamish about the firing squad, perhaps he should be squeamish about the death penalty. | Opinion ...

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Idaho will become the first state with such a policy once the law goes into effect on July 1, 2026. Four other states — Utah, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Mississippi — allow firing squad ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the US to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...