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Justice Department moves to add firing squads to federal executions

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Justice Department moves to add firing squads to federal executions

A DOJ memo directs the Bureau of Prisons to broaden death-penalty protocols with pentobarbital injections and firing squads as the Trump administration seeks to restart federal capital punishment

Apr 27, 2026