While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

Little approved a law in 2023 to add execution by firing squad as the state’s backup execution method, though at the time he said his preferred method was by lethal injection. Idaho, then became ...

A death-row inmate in Idaho suing over the state’s lethal injection protocol is entitled to discovery about where the execution drugs originated, how they were made, and when the state obtained them, ...

A lack of the lethal cocktail needed in the more traditional injection executions has forced states to find alternative ways to carry out death sentences. Idaho’s push to bring back firing ...

The way lethal injection works in each state differs slightly ... South Carolina is among five states - Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho - which allow firing squad as a method of execution ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...