Idaho


State update

Link to death penalty statute

Link to execution statute

Firing squad no longer an option

Date death penalty reenacted

July 1, 1973

Can a defendant get death penalty for a felony in which s/he was not responsible for the murder?

Yes; also if they "intended a killing, or acted with reckless indifference to human life"

How is the sentence determined?

Jury

Location of death row(s)

Boise (Women: Pocatello)

Clemency process

State Board of Pardons has exclusive authority to grant clemency

Time of execution (in law and/or by custom)

Not specified

Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973

1

Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973

Charles Irvin Fain, 2001



Execution Method

Lethal Injection

Total Executions Since State's Reinstatement of the Death Penalty: 1


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