Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a bill making the state the only in the U.S. with a firing squad as the preferred method of execution for capital punishment. This decision follows the recent execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina, who was put to death by firing squad. Idaho currently has nine prisoners on death row, with no executions carried out in over a decade. Last year, the state failed to execute a death row inmate due to problems with the lethal injection process. The legislation, supported by over two-thirds of the legislature, also keeps lethal injection as a backup method. Little’s office has not commented on the matter. Idaho legalized execution by firing squad in 2023, with the new law impacting current death row inmates and potentially future cases such as that of Bryan Kohberger, charged with multiple murders. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty in Kohberger’s trial later this year. The bill sponsor, Rep. Bruce Skaug, argued for the firing squad as the quickest and surest death penalty option following the botched injection in the previous year. Idaho becomes the fifth state in the country to allow death by firing squad, joining Utah, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
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