Two execution are scheduled for the second week of April in Florida and South Carolina, one of them by firing squad.

A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison ...

Idaho's recent change in laws to establish a firing squad as its primary execution method occurred less than a week after three volunteer prison employees in South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon ...

“Idaho also just became the ONLY state to make death by firing squad the primary method of execution,” Little, a two-term Republican, said in his statement. “I commend my partners in the ...

Prior to Sigmon's execution, the most recent death by firing squad was in 2010, when 49-year-old Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed in Salt Lake County. He was declared dead two minutes after he was shot ...

Foreman joined less than a handful of Senate Republicans to oppose a controversial execution methods bill, which authorized the firing squad as Idaho's primary method of execution. "We can lock ...

But last week Gov. Brad Little signed into law House Bill 37, making Idaho the only state in the nation to have firing squad as the primary method for execution. The law goes into effect July 2026.

Five states including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah authorize its use, but it is not the primary execution method. For this method, an inmate is usually bound to a chair ...