Bryan Kohberger was outspoken about his support of the death penalty before he murdered four University of Idaho students.

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

Bryan Kohberger allegedly supported the death penalty, despite later trying to avoid it through a plea deal in his murder ...

Kohberger avoided the death penalty by accepting a plea deal and admitting to the murders of four University of Idaho ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho may never carry out an execution by lethal injection ever again as the state prepares to transition to using the firing squad as its primary method of capital punishment.

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho may never carry out an execution by lethal injection ever again as the state prepares to transition to using the firing squad as its primary method of capital punishment.

According to police documents, Bryan Kohberger was a vocal proponent of capital punishment while a teaching assistant and PhD criminology student at Washington State University. NewsNation senior ...

"The botched execution of Thomas Creech on February 28, 2024 demonstrates that, even when lethal injection drugs are obtained, lethal injection is not available in Idaho," Kohberger's attorneys wrote.

Kohberger, 30, is charged in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.

In 2015, when the Idaho Supreme Court ruled on contemporary standards of decency concerning the death penalty, 32 U.S. states had active capital punishment programs, Logsdon wrote in one challenge.

Idaho, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Utah are the only states that authorize firing squads as a form of capital punishment.