The House Judiciary and Rules Committee voted on party lines to send to the House floor HB 37, which would place the firing ...

A new bill would make the firing squad Idaho's primary means of execution, after the state recently restored it as a backup ...

Presenting House Bill 37 to an Idaho House committee, bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa called the firing squad “more ...

The legislature in Idaho has moved to make firing squads the primary form of execution for prisoners on death row, citing ...

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

A committee advanced a bill Monday to potentially make Idaho the only state to use the firing squad as its primary method of ...

Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill to make a firing squad the primary method of execution in the state. Under Idaho law, ...

Idaho’s Republicans agree. Skaug told the Idaho Statesman news service his firing-squad bill was about offering “dignity for all”. “It is retribution, for the families that lost someone to murder and ...

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to the firing squad after the execution of a convicted serial killer via lethal injection completely failed last year. State ...

Idaho lawmakers are moving to bolster their newly restored firing squad as the state's primary means of execution with eight current death row inmates and the capital murder trial of student ...

Under Idaho law, lethal injection is the primary method, but executions by firing squad are allowed if executioners can't obtain the drugs required. The proposed legislation would make Idaho the ...