In the meantime, the State offered to provide discovery files ... Menzies has been on Utah’s death row for nearly four decades, convicted of the 1986 kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker ...

Instead of the green prison ... state had used the method. Just three other inmates in the U.S. have faced a firing squad since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 — all of them in Utah ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...