In Idaho, executions will be carried out at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution by three volunteer police marksmen whose identities will be kept confidential.
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Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
What followed was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades in a state that has long been a stronghold of capital punishment.
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