US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method

"The Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences, clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals."

"The actions taken include readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, which relies on pentobarbital as the lethal agent, and expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad."

"The justice department said that it has rescinded the Biden-era moratorium on federal executions and has authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants."

"Since taking office, Donald Trump signed an executive order committing to pursue federal death sentences and directing the attorney general to ensure that states have sufficient supplies of lethal injection drugs for executions."

The US Justice Department is reinstating the federal death penalty by readopting the lethal injection protocol from the Trump administration and introducing firing squads as an execution method. The department is streamlining processes to expedite death penalty cases and has rescinded the Biden-era moratorium on federal executions. It has authorized seeking death sentences for 44 defendants, with nine already approved. This move reverses previous efforts to limit the death penalty and aims to ensure sufficient supplies of lethal injection drugs for executions.

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