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Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a bill allowing firing squads to execute death row inmates when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.

Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

Idaho is now the fifth state to allow execution by firing squad, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a bill allowing firing squads to execute death row inmates when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.

Pharmaceutical companies increasingly have barred executioners from using their drugs, saying they were meant to save lives.

Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series on the death penalty in Idaho. IDAHO FALLS — It’s life or death. Literally. Samuel Newton, assistant professor of law at the University of Idaho, attempted to come up with one word that encompasses all of the feelings, legal-jargon and morality of the death penalty. […]

BOISE (IdahoEdNews.org) — The Senate voted Wednesday to create Idaho Launch, a multimillion-dollar postsecondary career incentives plan. The companion bills would allow high school graduates to receive up to $8,000 to attend community college, pursue a career-technical education certificate or complete workforce training. The program carries an annual price tag of up to $80 million. […]