including the death of an off-duty cop — opted for a lavish final meal before his execution. Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to be killed by a firing squad over a lethal injection or the electric chair ...

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s ‘death master file ... access to immigrant tax data via the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

He was sentenced to death for the murder of the officer and life in prison for the clerk's murder. Mahdi had the choice of dying by lethal injection, the electric chair or firing squad – and he ...

Back in Utah, Ralph Menzies has been on death row for more than 35 years for the 1986 kidnapping and murder of 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker. He chose the firing squad as his method of execution ...

which reintroduced the use of the electric chair and added the option of firing squad, a shield law was passed to protect the drug manufacturing company. Twenty-six people remain on death row in ...

On March 7, Brad Sigmon was executed in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and only the fourth since 1976. The others all occurred in Utah. The firing squad is an execution method with ...

April 11 (UPI) --South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday in Columbia. Mahdi was ...

The use of the "death master list" is the latest example ... the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security finalized an agreement under which ...

On Friday, April 11, South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi by firing squad. It will be the second time this year one of the state's inmates have been killed in ...

A firing squad in South Carolina on Friday executed a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine times and set him on fire in 2004. The firing squad put a hood over 42 ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the murder of a public safety officer, but the only previous execution by ...

If it proceeds, Mahdi’s execution would be the latest in a recent string of events that have put the spotlight on the firing squad as a handful of US death penalty states explore alternatives to ...