politics
DOJ restores and expands death penalty for federal cases
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.
TL;DR
- Justice Department is restoring and expanding the federal death penalty.
- New execution methods, including firing squads, will be permitted.
- Pentobarbital, used in previous federal executions, is reauthorized.
- Procedures are being streamlined to speed up capital cases.
- Actions aim to counteract perceived leniency of the Biden administration.
- Under Trump, 13 federal inmates were executed in the final months of his term.