Idaho hasn’t executed a death row prisoner since June 2012, and just two in more than 30 years. The state’s preferred method is lethal injection, at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution near Kuna, ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little gives his annual State of the State address on Jan. 6, 2025, on the House floor at the Statehouse in Boise. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) Idaho will become the only ...

More than 1,600 people have been put to death in the U.S. in the last half-century. Only three have been by firing squad. South Carolina is set to make it four Friday evening when it is scheduled to ...

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and it will take effect next ...

BOISE – Idaho’s prison system is pursuing a remote-operated system for firing squad executions as the state builds toward becoming the first in the U.S. with it as the primary method for carrying out ...

Idaho hasn’t executed a death row prisoner since June 2012, and just two in more than 30 years. The Idaho Legislature just passed a bill that would make the firing squad the primary method of ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho may never carry out an execution by lethal injection ever again as the state prepares to transition to using the firing squad as its primary method of capital punishment. The ...

Diocese of Boise Bishop Peter F. Christensen raised concerns about a “culture of death” and threats to human dignity after Idaho made death by firing squad its primary method of execution for death ...