As Idaho prepares to carry out executions by firing squad, the state’s new execution procedures are facing a legal challenge in federal court while anti-death penalty advocates ramp up public opposition.
The Execution Intervention Project unveiled a billboard in Boise this week reading, “Idaho, Don’t Shoot Tom Creech,” urging the state to reconsider its new execution method after Idaho officially made the firing squad its primary method of execution.
At the same time, longtime death row inmates Thomas Creech and Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr. have filed a federal lawsuit against Idaho corrections officials, arguing the state’s new firing squad law violates both the U.S. Constitution and their religious rights…