They could have made a small fortune auctioning off tickets to participate, but instead the state will be using experienced law enforcement officers that volunteer to be part of the firing squad. From the article:
Beginning July 1, Idaho became the only state in America where condemned inmates will, by default, face a hail of bullets instead of lethal injection—a dramatic policy shift prompted by last year’s botched attempt to execute convicted murderer Thomas Eugene Creech.
Republican Gov. Brad Little, who seeks a third term this November, signed both firing squad bills into law. The 2025 bill delayed implementation so IDOC had time to rebuild its execution chamber.
I would point out that Creech is a serial killer and seriously evil. It is an affront to all that is good that Creech is still alive. Anyway, after an attempt to execute him with lethal injection went wrong--the doctor spent over an hour unsuccessfully trying to find the vein, which sounds a lot like the phlebotomist at my doctor's office--the legislature and governor had enough and a bill was quickly passed changing the preferred execution method from lethal injection to firing squad.
Of course, being the government, they had to waste as many tax dollars as possible. Law enforcement insisted on a special facility to conduct executions at a cost of $1.2 million. And for some reason also insisted on the latest and greatest rifles: "five Daniel Defense DD5-P [sic: probably the DD5-SBR] rifles chambered in .308 Winchester, fitted with scopes, suppressors and bipods, at a cost of more than $24,000." I'm pretty sure that five Ruger American bolt action rifles would do a better job at a fraction of the cost. And bipods? And scopes? Seriously? It's in a room at a distance of only 10 yards, not hundreds of yards across a canyon up in the mountains.
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