Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

Two firefighters died and one was fighting for his life after a "total ambush" in Coeur d'Alene, authorities said.

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho may never carry out an execution by lethal injection ever again as the state prepares to transition to using the firing squad as its primary method of capital punishment.

Mahdi’s scheduled execution comes soon after the nation’s first firing squad execution in 15 years, which South Carolina carried out on March 7. Five days later, Idaho’s Republican governor ...

Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed a new law-making firing squads the state’s primary method of execution. He signed House Bill 37 Wednesday morning.

Idaho passed a bill in 2023 cementing firing squads as a backup method if lethal injection is not feasible. According to House Bill 37, lethal injection will become the alternative method once the ...

Idaho joins four other states—Utah, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Mississippi—that allow firing squads, though none use it as their primary execution method.