The state of Idaho recently passed a bill that was signed into law that would expand the death penalty to pedophiles. It also became the first state in the union to make a firing squad its preferred method of execution in modern times.
The bill, HB380 , now grants a judge or jury the ability to factor in the death penalty when crimes involving lewd conduct to a child under the age of 12 are proven in a trial. State law initially only allowed the death penalty in first-degree murder cases with aggravating circumstances.
A mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years imprisonment, with a possible maximum term of life, may be imposed if the defendant is found guilty of kidnapping the victim or participating in human trafficking “during the commission of or to accomplish the lewd conduct,” according to the bill’s language, strengthening punishments for other convictions where obscene behavior against a minor — aged 16 and younger — was confirmed but didn’t meet death penalty eligibility…