Idaho won’t be able to carry out the death penalty until prison officials increase witness access for executions.

The judge noted that Idaho doesn’t currently have any executions scheduled, so prison officials have time to install a closed ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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