It's technically possible but very uncommon, and using it on an active registration will raise some eyebrows at the registry. I'd almost forgotten it was an option at all.
Quite interesting, but aren't there restrictions on what circumstances they're allowed to delete domains? This section of the doc doesn't seem to speak to that, or maybe it's another doc entirely.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5731#section-3.2.2