Only five states allow firing squads for executions. But the firing squad isn’t the primary death penalty method in any of those states.

Death by firing squad could become Idaho's primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor's desk.

Idaho's legislature has sent a bill to Governor Brad Little's desk that could make firing squads the primary method of execution in the state.

A bill that would make the firing squad Idaho's primary form of execution has passed the Senate.The firing squad is already a legal form of execution in Idaho,