Mississippi is one of five states that still permit executions by firing squad, alongside Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho and South Carolina. However, a firing squad execution has never been conducted in ...

As Arizona prepared to carry out its first execution in three years, lawmakers debated whether to make the firing squad the official method of carrying out the death sentence. The legislation ...

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 ...

28, 2024. UPDATE (3/13/25): Idaho will be the only state in the union to use the firing squad as a preferred method of execution. The new law signed by Gov. Brad Little Wednesday doesn’t take effect ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the US to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...

Four other states — Utah, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Mississippi — allow firing squad executions. None of the others, however, use firing squads as a primary execution method. Only four ...

According to an article by the Idaho Capital Sun, Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 37 into law on Wednesday, making ...

BOISE — Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a new law making the firing squad the state's primary method of execution. Little signed House Bill 37 on Wednesday morning, according to a bill action ...

On Wednesday, Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 37 into effect, making death by firing squad the primary mode of execution in the state. Idaho lawmakers approved use of the firing squad in ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday morning signed into law House Bill 37, which will make the firing ...