Idaho became the first US state to make firing squad the primary method of execution.

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Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a bill to prioritize firing squad as the death penalty method effective July 1, 2026.

The Idaho Legislature's Republican majority, more than two-thirds in both chambers, supported the bill. In 2023, Little signed legislation introducing firing squad as a method of execution, but now lethal injection, the most common method of execution in the United States, will be a secondary option in Idaho.

Little signed the bill a week after the shooting of a prisoner in South Carolina, the first court-authorized execution in the United States since 2010. In its history, Idaho has never executed a convicted person by firing squad, although this method was allowed from 1982 to 2009.

Proponents of the execution say it will reduce delays in court proceedings and enforcement. There are currently nine people on death row in Idaho. The state last carried out the death penalty in 2012.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) opposed execution by execution as a form of capital punishment. “Regardless of how a state conducts executions, the ACLU of Idaho remains adamant that the death penalty violates Eighth Amendment protections, which provide all citizens with protection from cruel and unusual punishment,” the Idaho Statesman quoted the regional ACLU as saying.

In the United States, in addition to Idaho and South Carolina, execution as punishment is practiced in conservative Mississippi, Utah and Oklahoma. In total, the death penalty is practiced in 27 states out of 50. Of these 27, two states have no prisoners awaiting capital punishment.