US should use firing squads, electrocution as execution methods, Justice Department says [View all]

Source: Reuters

By Jonathan Allen

April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of executing people convicted ‌of the gravest federal crimes, the Department of Justice said on ‌Friday in a report that noted difficulties in getting drugs for lethal injections.

The report was a ​fulfillment of President Donald Trump's promise to resume capital punishment in his second term. In his first term, which ended in 2021, he resumed it after a 20-year gap, executing 13 federal prisoners with lethal injections in his final few ‌months in office.

Acting Attorney General ⁠Todd Blanche, who released the report, has authorized seeking death sentences against nine people after Trump rescinded a moratorium on ⁠federal executions by his predecessor, Joe Biden, the department said.

"Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the ​protocol to ​include additional manners of execution such as ​the firing squad, and streamlining ‌internal processes to expedite death penalty cases," it said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-department-readopts-firing-squads-151838985.html

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They left out drawing and quartering and burning at the stake.

Just another attempt at looking tough by an administration full of chickenhawks.