US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method [View all]

Trump’s DoJ says it is taking steps to ‘strengthen the federal death penalty’ in opposition to Biden-era policies.
The US justice department announced on Friday that it is taking steps to “strengthen the federal death penalty”, including bringing back firing squads and readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump administration.

“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 executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” the justice department said in a news release.

In the statement, the department said that 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”.
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Federal executions had been on hold since 2021, when the then-attorney general, Merrick Garland, imposed a moratorium on federal executions under the Joe Biden presidency, pending “a review of the Justice Department’s policies and procedures”.

During Trump’s first term, the government also resumed federal executions after ​a nearly 20-year pause.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/doj-death-penalty-firing-squad-lethal-injection



If they want to kill prisoners, assisted death for the terminally ill take a few pills and die quietly at home.

Personally, I have always wanted to give the decision to the one sentenced to death.
1) life in a cell, or...
2) death by whatever method they choose.