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 will take ...

In recent years, South Carolina became one of five states that have legalized firing squads as an execution method, most recently Idaho in 2023. "It's safe to say since 1858 we've never had this ...

The Supreme Court doesn’t care all that much for method-of-execution challenges. It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and ...

South Carolina's first scheduled execution by firing squad was scheduled for April 2022, but the state's highest court issued a temporary order to stop it from happening. Mississippi, Oklahoma and ...

The Heck bar is a big deal to death-sentenced prisoners who challenge execution methods, because those challenges almost always ripen after the first round of federal habeas litigation finishes. And ...

Idaho previously had a firing squad as a reserve execution method from 1982 to 2009, but it went unused and was removed from law until Little agreed to bring it back in 2023.

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.