The Justice Department says it will also streamline internal processes to “expedite death penalty cases”
The US will re-adopt the use of firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation for executing criminals convicted of the worst federal offenses, the Justice Department said in a statement on Friday.
The department said it is “readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration,” expanding it to include “additional manners of execution,” and “streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.”
After returning to office last January, Trump said he would direct the DOJ to “vigorously pursue” the death penalty to protect Americans from “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.”
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