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Although federal executions have been put on hold since 2021, individual states can still carry out the death penalty. Amid a shortage of lethal injection drugs, some states are looking for other ways to execute death row inmates.

One Idaho death row inmate has already had his execution postponed repeatedly because of lethal drug scarcity.

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

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Idaho could begin executing death row inmates by firing squad as early as this summer after Gov. Brad Little joined a wave of Republican support to use the method when lethal injection drugs are unavailable. Little signed House Bill 186 on Friday, tasking the Idaho Department of Correction with creating policies […]

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

Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs. The Legislature passed the measure March 20 with a veto-proof majority. Under it, firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed legislation into law on Friday that added firing squads as an alternative method ...

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

Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law

Under the law, firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections.