{"id":86821,"date":"2026-04-03T01:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=86821"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:42:11","slug":"idaho-legalizes-firing-squad-executions-for-child-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/idaho-legalizes-firing-squad-executions-for-child-rapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Legalizes Firing Squad Executions For Child Rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On July 1, Idaho Legalizes Firing Squad Executions, Including Child Rapists<\/a><\/h1>\n

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Starting on July 1, Idaho\u00a0will become<\/a>\u00a0the only state in the union that uses a firing squad as its primary option to fulfill its death penalty obligations. Idaho will also become one of only three states that include child rape as a death penalty crime.<\/h2>\n

Currently, the firing squad option is Idaho\u2019s second option after lethal injection.<\/h2>\n

Five states currently offer firing squads as a death penalty option. Last March, South Carolina executed 67-year-old Brad Sigmon by firing squad. Sigmon had been on death row for nearly a quarter century for beating his ex-girlfriend\u2019s parents to death with a baseball bat in 2001.<\/h2>\n

Prior to Sigmon, no one had been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010.<\/h2>\n

The most controversial part of this July 1 legal change is, believe it or not, Idaho adding the rape of a child under age 12 to its list of death penalty crimes.<\/h2>\n

In 2008, by a five-to-four decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty for child rapists was not proportional to the crime and struck it down as a violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Breitbart<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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