Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

A Wednesday morning hearing turned into a two-hour debate about Christian scripture, morality, tax benefits, states’ rights, ...

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

The legislature in Idaho has moved to make firing squads the primary form of execution for prisoners on death row, citing ...

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by ...

A legislative petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage is ...

Despite the national mourning period for the late Jimmy Carter, Washington's Gov. Bob Ferguson is directing flags to be ...

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has ordered that all flags be raised back to full staff during the inauguration of ...

"Rights are unalienable and they come from God and they don't come from government," Scott said in part. "...I don't think marriage is a fundamental right." ...

Collaboration is a hallmark of how nonprofits respond to disasters. These organizations often work alongside government ...