This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

With very little debate, the Idaho House overwhelmingly voted to pass HB 37, which would make the firing squad the state’s ...

House lawmakers will soon decide whether to ditch lethal injection as the state’s primary execution method in favor of the ...

Idaho House lawmakers quickly – and relatively quietly – adopted a bill making the firing squad the state’s primary execution ...

The Idaho Department of Corrections is taking steps to reconfigure a portion of the state's largest prison to prepare to ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem ...

Idaho currently has nine people—eight men and one woman—on death row, according to IDOC. The state's last execution, of Richard Leavitt, took place on June 12, 2012. Four other states besides ...

the legal nonprofit that represents most of the nine members on Idaho’s death row, declined to comment Thursday. Idaho’s death row at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution south of Boise ...

The Federal Defender Services of Idaho, the legal nonprofit that represents most of the nine members on Idaho’s death row, declined to comment Thursday. The bill also comes a year after Idaho failed ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho moved another step closer Thursday to becoming the only U.S. state with a firing squad as its lead method for carrying out the death penalty. Along a nearly party-line vote ...