Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, acting AG Todd Blanche says

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.

The Justice Department under President Donald Trump has added firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation to federal execution protocols, citing difficulties obtaining lethal injection drugs. The move follows the lifting of a moratorium on federal ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced new execution protocols, adding firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation to the methods used for federal executions. This move follows difficulties in obtaining drugs for lethal injections and fulfills former President Trump's initiative to revive the death penalty.

The report was a fulfillment of President Donald Trump's promise to resume capital punishment in his second term in the White House.

Pope Leo has taken another swipe at President Donald Trump and his administration. Mere hours after the Justice Department announced it was lifting a moratorium on federal capital punishment and

Pope Leo has repeated his call for an end to the death penalty – just as Donald Trump’s administration moved to broaden execution for federal inmates. In a message sent to DePaul University in Chicago to mark the 15th anniversary of the state of Illinois abolishing the death penalty,