The Justice Department to allow firing squads as a method of execution as the Trump administration moves to expedite capital punishment cases.

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday. The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that were used to carry out 13…

There were 13 executions by lethal injection during Trump's final six months in power, more than under any US leader in 120 years.

There were 13 executions by lethal injection during Trump's final six months in power, more than under any US leader in 120 years.

The US Justice Department has said that it is seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and gas to lethal injection as methods of execution.

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.

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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.