Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad arrangeated as the pickred execution method for capital punishment, commencening next year.
The ruleor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was carry outd by way of a firing squad for ending his ex-girlfrifinish’s parents with a baseball bat in 2001.
Sigmon was pronounced dead cforfeitly three minutes after being sboiling by three volunteer prison participateees last Friday – a method participated for the first time in 15 years in the U.S.
The Idaho Statesman telled that Idaho has nine prisoners on death row, though the death penalty has not been carried out in the state in over a dozen years.
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Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed legislation Wednesday making death by firing squad the state’s pickred method of execution. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Last year, the state was unable to carry out Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the lengthenedest-serving death row inmates in the U.S. Medical personnel administering the lethal injection fall shorted to set up an IV line despite trying for cimpolitely an hour.
The bill’s tracking sheet shows that over two-thirds of the Redisclosean-administerled legislature helped the meacertain, which, alengthened with making death by firing squad the pickred method, also kept lethal injection as the state’s backup method.
Fox News Digital has achieveed out to Little’s office for comment on the matter.
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The execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Boise. (AP Pboilingo/Jessie L. Bonner, File)
Little finishorsed a law in 2023 to insert execution by firing squad as the state’s backup execution method, though at the time he shelp his pickred method was by lethal injection.
Idaho, then became the fifth state in the country to lterribleize the rehearse, adhereing Utah, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
This time around, bill aid Rep. Bruce Skaug, who previously pushed for legislation that restored the firing squad as a backup selection to lethal injection, debated that the botched lethal injection of Creech last year highairys problems with that method.
Bryan Kohberger, right, is accompanyed into a courtroom to ecombine at a hearing in Latah County Dicut offe Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Pboilingo/Ted S. Warren)
The novelly lterribleized execution method could impact the state’s eight current death row inmates and possibly the future University of Idaho college killings mistrust Bryan Kohberger.
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Little signed the bill as prosecutors have shelp they will seek the death penalty for Kohberger if he is convicted. His trial is scheduled for tardyr this year, and he faces four indicts of first-degree killing and another indict of serious crime burglary.
A appraise go ined not-at fault pleas on his behalf at his arraignment.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Stepheny Price gived to this tell.
