Death Penalty

It’s Friday, which means it's time for our Reporter Roundtable when Idaho Matters gets you up to date on all the news that made headlines this past week.

The firing squad is steps away from becoming Idaho’s primary execution method.

Idaho House lawmakers quickly – and relatively quietly – adopted a bill making the firing squad the state’s primary execution method.

House lawmakers will soon decide whether to ditch lethal injection as the state’s primary execution method in favor of the firing squad.

The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a second attempt to execute an Idaho death row inmate would not violate his Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Judge Steven Hippler ruled Wednesday that Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, can face the death penalty.

Kohberger’s public defense team has attacked the death penalty from multiple angles, arguing it is arbitrary, unconstitutional, violates international law, and that waiting on death row for years or decades wondering if you’d get lethal injection or firing squad if the state couldn’t get the right drugs was unfair.

The Idaho Supreme Court held Tuesday night that a second execution attempt of Thomas Creech does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment or imposing multiple punishments for the same offense.

Seven months after Thomas Creech was scheduled to be executed, Idaho Maximum Security Institution was renovated to streamline the lethal injection process. A day later, Creech was issued a death warrant.

Here you’ll find the most current information about how capital punishment cases are treated in Idaho from start to finish.