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The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution. In a memo released on April 24, ...

The Justice Department announced on Friday that it would reimplement lethal injection and firing squads as part of the Trump administration's efforts to "strengthen" the federal death penalty. "Among ...

The Trump administration said Friday it would allow executions by firing squad and restore the use of lethal injections in federal death-penalty cases. In a report, the Justice Department said many of ...

For the first time, the Justice Department will allow firing squads for federal executions. Only three defendants remain on federal death row after former President Joe Biden converted 37 of their ...

The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, the Department of Justice said on Friday in a ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

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. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

Donald Trump‘s Justice Department announced on Friday that it is bringing back firing squads as a method to execute people sentenced to death. Fox News was the first to report on the Justice ...