Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, acting AG Todd Blanche says

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced new execution protocols, adding firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation to the methods used for federal executions. This move follows difficulties in obtaining drugs for lethal injections and fulfills former President Trump's initiative to revive the death penalty.

Pope Leo XIV is criticising Donald Trump's government once again after reviving one of the oldest methods of capital punishment in modern America. A directive issued by the United States Department of Justice instructs the Bureau of Prisons to expand the range of execution methods available to the federal government.

The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital cases.

President Donald Trump’s administration moved to broaden federal execution methods to include firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation, while also fast-tracking federal review of certain psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment. The ...