Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make the state’s newly revived firing squad its main method of execution as the quadruple murder trial of aspiring criminologist and alleged co-ed killer Bryan Kohberger approaches.

The bill, H0037, has advanced to the Idaho House floor after clearing the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee Tuesday.

Bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, who previously pushed for legislation that restored the firing squad as a backup option to lethal injection, argued that the botched lethal injection of condemned serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech last year highlights problems with that method.

The bill advances as prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Kohberger in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students: 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves and 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.

Lights show the back door of a rental house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho. Four of the six students inside were killed on Nov. 13, 2022 before police say a surviving housemate saw a masked man leave through the rear sliding door, shown on the right. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

His trial is scheduled for later this year. He faces four charges of first-degree murder and another charge of felony burglary.

A judge entered not guilty pleas on his behalf at his arraignment.