There's an article on American Thinker - "Just what is the ‘magic number’?" - by Stu Tarlowe in which the sentence of Bryan Kohberger was discussed. Tarlowe wondered just how many murders was enough to justify execution. Being in Idaho, this has been a story longer than it has been at the national level.

The point of the article questioned why Kohberger wasn't sentenced to death rather than 4 consecutive life sentences.

From a only-casually interested point of view, I'll suggest that by pulling the death penalty off the table, the Kohberger was willing to confess to the murders. This deal included Kohberger not appealing the sentence. This saved the expense of trials, appeals, more appeals, and allowed Kohbeger to be placed in general population rather than Death Row. Kohberger will die in prison - likely far sooner than expected and by a means slower and likely more painful than either the firing squad or lethal injection.

Some people are born evil and Kohberger appears to be one of those.

Idaho switched to execution by firing squad just this year when an execution (that had had appeal after appeal for decades) was to be carried out by lethal injection but there was a problem with obtaining the "proper" drugs (why an overdose of morphine or fentanyl or some such isn't used is beyond me). Bullets are readily available but lethal injection remains an alternative method of execution. Hanging was the primary method until 1978 when lethal injection was selected as the primary execution method.

To be sentenced to death requires a unanimous vote by jury; a single objection will change the sentence to life and there is no retrial. Rape of children under 12 is also a capital offense as is 1st degree kidnap (with circumstances) and perjury leading to the execution of an innocent person.

There are currently 8 men and one woman on death row here; two of them having been sentenced in the 1980s ...