Idaho won’t be able to carry out the death penalty until prison officials improve what execution witnesses can hear and see ...

Mahdi’s scheduled execution comes soon after the nation’s first firing squad execution in 15 years, which South Carolina carried out on March 7. Five days later, Idaho’s Republican governor ...

Defendant asked for ‘everything,’ and ‘everything’ is what he received,” the judge wrote. “Defendant cannot demand everything ...

A man who somehow thought he was above the normal rules of civilization. My guess is he would die with the same empty, blank ...

A judge has issued a damning response to Bryan Kohberger's latest bid to dodge the firing squad if he is convicted of the brutal stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students.

Due to changes to Idaho's death penalty procedures, the 30-year-old could face the firing squad as a method of execution - a prospect that has been welcomed by some of the victims’ families.

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's will only be the fifth such execution since 1977.

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and firing three bullets into his heart. CNN values your feedback 1.