Idaho banned firing squads in 2009 but seems set to reverse course as drug shortages and botched executions hinder lethal injections.
But lethal injections have been beset by problems over the past decade, from drug shortages to lawsuits to botched executions. Now, with eight prisoners on its death row and ongoing drug supply shortages that have forced what some legislators have described as a de facto moratorium, Idaho is set to again allow the execution method it banished 14 years earlier.
Proponents of the new bill have argued that firing squads are an effective and constitutional lethal practice that would allow the state to carry out executions that prisoners were sentenced to years earlier. While the department would need to develop a protocol for firing squads, Ricks floated the possibility that Idaho could pioneer the use of a remote-controlled trigger mechanism instead of the protocol of giving corrections staffers or police a mix of blank and live rounds before they fire the weapons.
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