The state of Idaho recently passed a bill that was signed into law that would expand the death penalty to pedophiles.

hold the ashes of his brother Ronnie the last death row inmate to be executed by firing squad during a protest outside the execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7 ...

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Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

South Carolina death row inmate has chosen execution by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be put to death on April 11 after ...

No South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions in the state since the death penalty resumed in the United States in 1976.