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.

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

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 ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He ...

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, ...

The Idaho Legislature appears set to wrap up the 2025 legislative session as Republicans and Democrats announce press conferences for Friday afternoon. Friday m ...

Five states authorize the firing squad as an execution method. Arizona could join the ranks if lawmakers decide to send the matter to voters in 2026.

Lethal injection has been the preferred method in ... Five states including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah authorize its use, but it is not the primary execution method.

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Idaho will have a new state prisons director for the first time since 2018 after its current chief leaves for the private sector, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.