Legislators Idaho approved on Monday a bill that would allow enforcement death sentence To shootingreported on the legislature’s website.
State Representative Bruce D. Skaug confirmed the move in a statement, CNN reported.
“H186 has now passed the Idaho Senate and House of Representatives with a veto-proof majority,” Skaug wrote in an email to CNN. “With the governor’s signature, the state is more likely to bring justice, as determined by our judicial system, against those who committed first-degree murder.”
24 deputies voted in favor of the bill, 11 voted against.
House Bill 186 now goes to the table of Republican Gov. Brad Little.
Under a measure passed in Idaho, firing squads will only be used if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injection and if the execution of a death row inmate has been delayed several times due to shortages of drugs.
There used to be a shooting option in Idaho law, but he never used it. This option was removed from state law in 2009 after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of the widely used lethal injection method for executions.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma, and South Carolina currently have laws allowing execution by firing squad if other methods of execution are unavailable.
A judge has suspended a South Carolina law allowing execution by firing squad until a lawsuit challenging the method is resolved.
Iowa Republican Gov. Brad Little has spoken out in support of the death penalty, but does not usually comment on legislation before signing or vetoing it.
Source: La Opinion
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