The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases

The ⁠U.S. ⁠Department of ⁠Justice said on Friday ​it is taking actions ‌to strengthen the ‌federal death ⁠penalty, ⁠including firing squads and readopting the lethal ​injection protocol. “Among the actions taken are readopting ​the lethal injection protocol utilized ⁠during the ⁠first Trump ⁠Administration,

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.

"Today, 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 exe

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 Friday in a report that noted difficulties in getting drugs for lethal injections.

U.S. 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,

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 today in a report that noted difficulties in getting drugs for lethal injections.

The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, the