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DOJ Approves Firing Squads for Federal Death Penalty Cases

| April 24, 2026 |Updated 1h ago |~1 min read |national |Source: www.theepochtimes.com
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has authorized firing squads, electrocution, and gassing as a means of execution in federal cases. In a press release on April 24, the department said it was directing the Bureau of Prisons to expand its execution protocol to include firing squads, lethal injection with pentobarbital, and other methods. It’s part of a broader report on the death penalty following President Donald Trump’s executive order to reinstate capital punishment at the federal level. President Joe Biden had instituted a moratorium on executions and commuted the death sentences of almost all federal death-row inmates before he left office....

Originally published at www.theepochtimes.com
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