The governor of Idaho, Brad Little, signed his name on a bill on Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the United States to have a shooting team designated as the favorite execution method for capital punishment, from next year.
The governor’s action is less than a week old after Brad Sigmon, 67, from South Carolina, was executed through a shooting team for killing the parents of her ex-friendly friend with a baseball bat in 2001.
Sigmon was declared dead almost three minutes after being killed by three employees of the volunteer prison last Friday – a method used for the first time in 15 years in the United States
The Idaho statesman reported that Idaho had nine prisoners in the death corridor, although the death penalty has not been carried in the state for more than a dozen years.
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The governor of Idaho, Brad Little, signed the legislation on Wednesday by death in dismissing the favorite execution method of the State. (Darin Oswald / Idaho Statesman / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Last year, the state was unable to execute Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the longest death prisoners in American medical staff administered the lethal injection failed to establish a line IV despite its efforts for about an hour.
The bill’s monitoring sheet shows that more than two -thirds of the legislature under republican control supported the measure, which, in all death by pulling the squad, the preferred method, also kept the lethal injection as a method of safeguarding the state.
Fox News Digital contacted the Little office to comment on the question.
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The Maximum Idaho Execution Chamber Security Institution in Boisse. (AP photo / Jessie L. Bonner, file)
Few approved a law in 2023 to add the execution in dislocating the squad as a method of state rescue execution, but at the time, he declared that his favorite method was by lethal injection.
Idaho then became the fifth state of the country to legalize the practice, after Utah, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Mississippi.
This time, Bill sponsors the representative Bruce Skaug, who previously put pressure for legislation that restored the shooting team as an aid option for lethal injection, argued that the lethal injection of Creech last year highlights the problems with this method.
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Bryan Kohberger, on the right, is escorted in a courtroom to appear during a hearing before the District Court of the County of Latah, on September 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP photo / Ted S. Warren)
The newly legalized method of execution could have an impact on the current eight detainees of the State and perhaps the future murders of the Idaho University, the suspect Bryan Kohberger.
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Little signed the bill because the prosecutors declared that they would ask for the death penalty for Kohberger if he was sentenced. His trial is later scheduled for this year, and he faces four accusations of first degree murder and another criminal burglary accusation.
A judge has placed unaccompanied pleads on his behalf in his indictment.
Michael Ruiz and Stepheny Price of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
