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The Return of the Firing Squad, Explained
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA man dies by firing squad in Cuba in 1935.(Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) The Idaho Senate approved a bill Monday reinstating...
Cruel, unusual or corporal? SC Supreme Court revisits using firing squad, electric chair
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe South Carolina Supreme Court returned Tuesday to hear a now almost two-year-long debate over...
Utah’s death penalty upheld as judge dismisses suit filed by 5 death row inmates
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIs the death penalty still in Utah? Is there anyone on death row in Utah? When was the last death...
Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA draft bill in Idaho would allow firing squads if lethal injection is unavailable. A December...
Idaho GOP Channels Trump With Plan to Bring Back Firing Squad
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Idaho state legislature banned execution by firing squad in 2009. The nation has changed quite a...
Idaho set to bring back death by firing squad
Revolt via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIdaho State Capitol Building Idaho is moving to become the fifth state in the nation to allow death by firing squad. Today (March 20), the state...
Utah requests Ralph Menzies come before the court to issue an execution warrant
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe state of Utah filed a court request Wednesday asking the court to direct that Ralph Menzies be...
Idaho firing squad bill forms friction between attorney general, prison officials
Idaho Statesman McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year ago“Rather than bringing expediency to our executions, this new option could ensnare us in lengthy...
South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoLawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme...
How could Idaho’s firing squad law affect Bryan Kohberger? Idaho’s history offers clues
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“I feel really confident it will be a capital case,” a Boise criminal defense attorney said. “I...