Idaho could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by a panel of lawmakers Wednesday. FOX13
could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by a panel of lawmakers Wednesday.but has been unable to secure the drugs needed for lethal injection executions. Only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina currently have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, but a judge has put South Carolina’s law on hold until a lawsuit challenging the method is resolved.
Pizzuto has spent more than three decades on death row for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors.In the first court appearance for the man accused of brutally killing four University of Idaho students, a judge laid out all five counts he is facing. Even if he was found guilty of just one of the four counts of murder, he could be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.," Skaug told the House Ways and Means committee.
Public support and use of the death penalty has declined for the past two decades, in part because of the high rate of "botched" or highly problematic executions, according to an annual report from the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center., but he said it was a better option than lethal injection.
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