Nampa, who sponsored the bill that sets up the state’s transition to a firing squad, told the Idaho Statesman he has concerns that remote-operated firearms could falter the day of an execution. He ...

"If the murders in Moscow are not a case for the death penalty, then what is?" said Rep. Bruce Skaug, a Nampa Republican.

Idaho is preparing to make firing squads its main execution method, a first for any US state, as it works to build a new death chamber south of Boise, to be ready by next summer. Under a new state law ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — 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 ...

Robinson, 22, has been charged with aggravated murder in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

As Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced that the state prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, ...

Idaho’s plans to build a special chamber to execute prisoners via firing squad may include some sort of remote-controlled system to pull the trigger. According to a story by the Idaho Statesman’s ...

Lethal injection will remain the backup option, but Idaho will become the first state in the U.S. to have a firing squad as the primary method for carrying out a death sentence.

He took my brother’s life and has now outlived his entire family because my brother’s last living child died of cancer a few ...

Idaho’s death row at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution near Kuna houses male prisoners sentenced to death. Incarcerated women on death row are housed at the Women’s Correctional Center in ...