On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to advance HB 37, a bill which would replace lethal injection with death by firing squad as Idaho’s primary execution method for ...

The planned Nov. 13 execution of Thomas Creech, Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, has been delayed, giving members of a local anti-death penalty group a little more time to state their case.

He was first imprisoned in Idaho in 1974 for fatally shooting John Wayne Bradford and Edward Thomas Arnold, two house painters who had picked up Creech and his girlfriend while they were hitchhiking.

The Idaho Department of Corrections is taking steps to reconfigure a portion of the state's largest prison to prepare to ...

Idaho House lawmakers quickly – and relatively quietly – adopted a bill making the firing squad the state’s primary execution ...

A bill to make death by firing squad the main method of execution in Idaho is moving to the Senate floor for a vote after ...

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to ... In February 2024, 73-year-old Thomas Eugene Creech, a man convicted of five murders, was scheduled to be executed by lethal ...

A new bill would make the firing squad Idaho's primary means of execution, after the state recently restored it as a backup ...

the state halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Creech after officials were unable to find a vein to establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. Idaho currently has ...

Idaho’s death row at the Idaho Maximum Security ... vein for an IV in the body of 73-year-old death row prisoner Thomas Creech — Skaug now hopes to ensure that prisoners on Idaho’s nine ...

Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make ... argued that the botched lethal injection of condemned serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech last year highlights problems with that method.