A new Idaho law exempts execution procedures from judicial review and public scrutiny, raising concerns about transparency and accountability in the death penalty system.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death ...

Lawmakers at the statehouse debated the use of firing squads for state executions. A bill that would have authorized a firing squad to carry out the death penalty in Indiana failed to pass out of the ...

A federal appeals court ruled that a Georgia inmate who took his fight for death by firing squad to the U.S. Supreme Court can still be executed by lethal injection. The court rejected Michael Nance's ...

BOISE, Idaho — Advocates are attempting to stop renovations on an Idaho jail that officials hope to convert into a designated location for firing squad executions. At an event scheduled for Tuesday, ...

STATEHOUSE — An Indiana House committee unanimously advanced a bill Wednesday tightening protections for defendants with intellectual disabilities in capital cases, while a Senate proposal allowing ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Jan. 17, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 17, 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, ...

Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, listens to a bill on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House ...