Bryan Kohberger Supported Death Penalty Before Idaho Murders
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Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech, convicted of killing five people, is dealt the latest loss in a federal court decision.
Kohberger, 30, is charged in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho may never carry out an execution by lethal injection ever again as the state prepares to transition to using the firing squad as its primary method of capital punishment.
Idaho, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Utah are the only states that authorize firing squads as a form of capital punishment.
Since juries took over deciding the death penalty, only two Idaho counties have asked for capital punishment in murder cases. Ada County - Idaho's biggest and most prosperous - hasn't pursued it ...