Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on Wednesday’s bill, making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to designate the shooting squad as the preferred method of death penalty.
Brad Sigmon, 67, in South Carolina, killed his ex-girlfriend’s baseball bat in 2001, and the governor’s actions were less than a week.
Sigmon was declared dead for nearly three minutes after being shot by three volunteer prison employees last Friday, the first method used in the United States in 15 years
The Idaho politician reported that Idaho had nine inmates on death row, although the death penalty has not been conducted in the state for more than a decade.
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Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed legislation sentenced to death on Wednesday by firing the state’s preferred execution method. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Politician/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Last year, the state was unable to execute Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the longest-serving death row prisoners in the U.S., and despite trying for about an hour, it was unable to establish an IV line.
The bill’s tracking table shows that more than two-thirds of Republican-controlled legislatures supported the measure and killed it by firing the squad’s preferred method, also putting the deadly injection as a backup method for the state.
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Executive Chamber of the largest security agency in Boise Idaho. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner, File)
In 2023, there is little approval of a law to increase execution by squads as the state’s backup method of execution, although he said his preferred method is through a lethal injection.
Idaho then became the fifth state in the country, legalizing the practice, following Utah, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Mississippi.
This time, Bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug has previously pushed for legislation that restores the shooting squad as an alternative to lethal injections, arguing that last year’s fatal injection stimulated the problem of the method.
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Right Bryan Kohberger was escorted to appear at a hearing at the Lata County District Court in Moscow, Idaho on September 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
The new legal approach to enforcement could affect eight death row prisoners in the state and could even affect the murder suspect Bryan Kohberger, at the University of Idaho Future University.
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Prosecutors said they would seek death penalty if Koberg was convicted. His trial is scheduled to take place later this year and he faces four counts of first-degree murder and felony theft.
A judge filed a lawsuit on his behalf without declaring his plea.
Michael Ruiz and Stepheny Price of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
