Idaho desperately wants to build a facility to execute by firing squad. But nobody wants the contract

Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Ada County, where executions are performed. The state is currently working to renovate its execution chamber to accommodate firing squad deaths - (Idaho Department of Correction)

More than 1,600 people have been put to death in the U.S. in the last half-century. Only three have been by firing squad.

South Carolina is set to make it four Friday evening when it is scheduled to kill Brad Sigmon by firing squad. Idaho is now looking to add to the count, further.