Public safetyFinding

Idaho should keep the death penalty.

Idaho allows the death penalty for first-degree murder and some other crimes, and made the firing squad its main execution method in 2025. Keeping it would continue capital sentences, while abolishing it would make life in prison the maximum sentence.

Terri Pickens

Democratic
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