Idaho is poised to allow firing squads to execute condemned inmates, in some cases.
currently have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. A judge has put South Carolina’s law on hold until a lawsuit challenging the method is resolved.
"This is a rule of law issue — our criminal system should work and penalties should be exacted," Ricks said. The bill originated with Republican Rep. Bruce Skaug, prompted in part by the state’s inability to execute Gerald Pizzuto Jr. late last year. Pizzuto, who now has terminal cancer and other debilitating illnesses, has spent more than three decades on death row for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors.
"I don’t feel, as the director of the Idaho Department of Correction, the compulsion to ask my staff to do that," Tewalt said.
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