The punishment of death shall be inflicted by continuous, intravenous administration of a lethal quantity of a substance or substances approved by the director of the Idaho department of correction until death is pronounced by a coroner or a deputy coroner. The director of the Idaho department of correction shall determine the procedures to be used in any execution. This act shall apply to all executions carried out on and after the effective date of this enactment, irrespective of the date sentence was imposed.
Idaho Code § 19-2716
Infliction of death penalty
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Gerald Pizzuto, Jr. v. Josh Tewalt (2021)
Most recently applied in Thomas Creech v. Josh Tewalt (October 2023)
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.