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

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 ...

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

This bill is not about whether the death penalty is good or bad,” Idaho Republican Representative Bruce Skaug stated. “Our job is to carry it out in the most efficient manner under the bounds of our ...

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

The Representative who introduced the bill, Bruce Skaug, said it is "less problematic" than execution by legal drugs.

A bill was introduced Tuesday to make the firing squad the primary method of execution by the state. Currently, the state’s ...

Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.

Will a home invasion just miles from the Idaho murder site give Bryan Kohberger’s defense team an alternative suspect in the deaths of four Moscow students? Many speculate that the similarities ...

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 ...