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 ...

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

Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid search for “better” execution methods.

Mississippi hasn’t been able to acquire the execution drugs it once used, and it last carried out an execution in 2012. The state has 47 people on death row , and some have been there for decades.

The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010. Brad Sigmon is set to be put to death by firing squad in South Carolina, raising questions about its continued use.

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 ...