Department of Justice Releases Memo Calling for Expansion of Federal Death Penalty and New Methods

The DOJ has a death penalty wish list. And firing squads aren’t even the worst part

After the Justice Department released a report Friday to “Restore and Strengthen the Federal Death Penalty,” the national and international public rightly focused on the DOJ’s recommendation to bring back the firing squad as an execution method. The firing squad is a particularly brutal way to put…

Trump Administration Moves to Bring Back Firing Squads in Effort to Ramp Up Executions

“His first instinct almost always seems to be demonize someone as an enemy,” said Sister Helen Prejean.

Department of Justice Releases Memo Calling for Expansion of Federal Death Penalty and New Methods

On April 24, 2026, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy released a detailed report, *Restoring and Strengthening the Federal Death Penalty*, call­ing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to rein­state use of a sin­gle-drug (pen­to­bar­bi­tal) exe­cu­tion pro­to­col, and urg­ing Congress to enact sweep­ing leg­isla­tive changes that would expand the reach and speed of the fed­er­al death penal­ty. Alongside the release of the repo…

Stop Trump Expediting State Executions

The headlines on Friday blared that the Trump Administration announced a return to the firing squad, but that's just bluster. Much more concerning are the proposed new regulations designed to expedite state executions by cutting access to federal appeals and empowering the U.S. Attorney General to help expedite state executions.This cannot be allowed to stand, and YOU can do something about it: