Posted on 02/07/2025 5:10:39 PM PST by Libloather
Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make the state's newly revived firing squad its main method of execution as the quadruple murder trial of aspiring criminologist and alleged co-ed killer Bryan Kohberger approaches.
The bill, H0037, has advanced to the Idaho House floor after clearing the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee Tuesday.
Bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, who previously pushed for legislation that restored the firing squad as a backup option to lethal injection, argued that the botched lethal injection of condemned serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech last year highlights problems with that method.
Creech was first sentenced to death for the murders of John Wayne Bradford and Edward Thomas Arnold in 1974. He was hitchhiking when the two picked him up. Then he shot them from behind.
He escaped death in that case when courts found the state's old sentencing law to be unconstitutional and his punishment was commuted to life in prison. But then he crushed another inmate's skull with a sock full of batteries and returned to death row in 1983 for the murder of David Dale Jensen.
He had previously been acquitted of the murder of Paul Schrader, 70, in Tucson, Arizona. However, investigators still think he was the killer. He's been convicted of five slayings altogether in Idaho, Oregon and California. He made dozens of additional confessions, although authorities say he is suspected of only six of those slayings.
"I, along with many others, believe the firing squad is more certain, has less appellate issues, and is more humane than other forms of execution," Skaug told Fox News Digital last month.
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I don’t know anyone in idaho who would have guns.
Certainly no one who would aim one at this guy
"What happened to “short drop, sudden stop”?"
You’re one of the best of the freepers, Bikkuri. :)
I live in California but “HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL”.
Actually I have a good selection, from shotguns to pistols and rifles, of course being California I will have to get them up from the bottom of the lake (boating accident you know) but they were all well wrapped and protected.
long ago in a place where there was no tv I built a crystal radio, I remember wrapping magnet wire around a toilet paper roll a capacitor and a galena crystal with an earphone
Later I listened to a lot of radio dramas.
When I go camping with my adult children we listen to random ones around the fire, Today I have an mp3 device with everything I could find online and it plays on random, could be X-1 maybe the Shadow, CBS mystery theater, or even johnny dollar, harry nile, boston blackie, or a bunch of others I will leave you in Suspense about..
I was extremely lucky to grow up in the golden age of radio, TV, Internet, Video games and also Computers.
Recently someone gave me a next gen amd server code named galena, with some mi200 cards so I could run my own AI. (I am training it on certain types of otr so that it can help Musk do “Fantastic Forensic Fun Stuff”)
Still I feel so very sorry for the grandkids who will never get to smoke Chesterfields while listening to Gunsmoke
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