Idaho hasn't carried out an execution since 2012 due to an inability to obtain lethal injection drugs, though a new law that recently took effect makes death by firing squad the state's backup ...

Pizzuto’s execution has been scheduled and called off several times. During the 2023 legislative session, the Idaho Legislature passed House Bill 186, which adds the firing squad as an ...

A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, allowing prosecutors ... reinstating execution by firing squad amid the student ...

ATLANTA — The Eleventh Circuit overturned the dismissal of a death-row inmate’s petition requesting to be executed by firing squad instead of a lethal injection ... so the issue is returned to the ...

Oklahoma law, likewise, would allow for execution by firing squad only if lethal injection ... "But there is no bill file for it, there is no sponsor, there is no immediate need." ...

The House bill adds an option of executions by firing squads consisting of five law enforcement officers chosen by the state corrections director. Missouri's next execution is scheduled for Jan. 29.

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