While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

Little approved a law in 2023 to add execution by firing squad as the state’s backup execution method, though at the time he said his preferred method was by lethal injection. Idaho, then became ...

The Idaho Legislature appears set to wrap up the 2025 legislative session as Republicans and Democrats announce press ...

A lack of the lethal cocktail needed in the more traditional injection executions has forced states to find alternative ways to carry out death sentences. Idaho’s push to bring back firing ...

County Commissioner Brent Reinke oversaw two executions when he was IDOC director. "It's nothing to celebrate," Reinke said.

The way lethal injection works in each state differs slightly ... South Carolina is among five states - Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho - which allow firing squad as a method of execution ...

South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has chosen to be executed via firing squad just weeks after Brad Sigmon was ...