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

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 U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump has reinstated and expanded federal execution protocols to include firing squads, electrocution, and nitrogen gas, alongside lethal injection. Officials say the changes aim to expedite capital cases ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it ​announced on Friday,

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