The U.S. Supreme Court has at times spared prisoners with dementia from execution, including an Alabama man in 2019 who had ...

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

A Utah judge has set an execution date for a man with dementia who has been on death row for 37 years. Sixty-seven-year-old ...

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

Idaho is preparing its facilities for firing squad executions and has put its current execution schedule on hold until 2026. As of July 1, 2026, firing squad executions will be the primary method ...

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.

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 Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, signed the bill this week to make death by firing squad the default method of execution for every person on death row in the state.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the US to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...

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 ...