US EditionDOJ reinstates firing squads, pentobarbital for federal executions
The plan would revive pentobarbital injections and add firing squads as federal execution options, while officials say 44 defendants are now facing death sentences.
- On Friday, the Justice Department announced it is reinstating federal lethal injection protocols and authorizing the firing squad as an execution method, as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche released a 52-page plan to expedite capital cases.
- The initiative reverses policies from the Biden administration, which had imposed an indefinite execution moratorium in 2021; the Trump administration claims prior policies relied on "deeply flawed analysis" that caused "untold harm to the public."
- Currently, the Department of Justice is seeking the death penalty for 44 defendants, including three MS-13 members, with Blanche stating the changes are necessary to deliver justice after 14 years without a federal execution.
- Officials plan to limit clemency petitions and reduce the time between conviction and execution, though legal experts expect the policy shift to trigger significant court challenges regarding execution method constitutionality.
- Five states currently authorize execution by firing squad, a method used recently in South Carolina, while an October 2025 Gallup poll shows 52 percent of Americans favor the death penalty, though the issue remains contentious.
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US adding firing squads, electrocution and gassing to federal execution methods
US President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced on Friday, noting difficulties in obtaining drugs for lethal injections.
The U.S. Department of Justice will adopt firing squads as a permissible method of execution, at a time when President Donald Trump's government is trying to intensify and expedite death penalty cases, officials said on Friday.The Department of Justice is also reauthorizing the use of lethal single drug injections with pentobarbital, which were used to carry out 13 executions during Trump's first government, more than under any president in mode…
Who's first on the sentencing list? The US Department of Justice has officially added the firing squad, electric chair, and gas asphyxiation to the list of alternative methods for federal executions. This was stated in a department report released on Friday, as reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing Reuters. Read also: US slaps China with sanctions ahead of Iran talks Reason for the change: The Justice Department report attributes the decision to diffi…
DOJ Reinstates Firing Squad as Official Federal Execution Method, Moves to 'Restore Solemn Duty' and Deliver Justice for Victims of the Most Barbaric Crimes
The Department of Justice under the Trump administration announced on Friday that it is officially reinstating death by firing squad as a permissible method of execution for federal death row inmates.
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