IDOC spent years trying to find lethal injection drugs, only to have their use-by date lapse while contending with delays, ...

The state’s preferred method is lethal injection, at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution near Kuna, with a firing squad as the backup method with a law that took effect in July 2023.

This is a breaking news story. Check back to idahostatesman.com for updates. To sign up for breaking news alerts, click here. Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law Wednesday to make Idaho the ...

This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press. The Idaho Senate on Wednesday voted 28-7 on a bill to establish the firing squad the state's primary method of execution. As of a 2023 law ...

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 ...

Though there are no upcoming executions currently scheduled in South Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho and Mississippi also allow executions by firing squad. On May 1, the Mississippi Supreme Court ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method, most recently Idaho in 2023. The last inmate in the U.S. to be ...

Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses ... Lawmakers passed a new law this year that will make firing squads the state's primary method of execution, starting next year.

Seven powerful opinion pieces pull back the curtain on Idaho's most pressing social issues. This list outlines moments like ...