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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- 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.
Over the course of generations, there’s been a slow effort to make state-sanctioned executions more civilized. Alas, sometimes, there are steps backward.
Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.
Idaho will allow prisoners on death row to be executed by firing squad due to a US nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs. Dwindling supplies o...
One Idaho death row inmate has already had his execution postponed repeatedly because of lethal drug scarcity.