Justice Department to allow firing squads and electrocution

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US is adding firing squads, electrocution and gassing to federal execution methods
By Jonathan Allen April 24 (Reuters) - 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,

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Justice Department to allow firing squads and electrocution in new federal execution plan
Trump administration moves to add firing squad to federal execution methods
Trump’s Justice Department is bringing back firing squads for federal executions
The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.

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DOJ recommends bringing back firing squads in federal executions
US adding firing squads, electrocution and gassing to federal execution methods
DOJ to allow firing squads for executions
The three inmates currently on death row in the federal prison system are Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; 2013 Boston Ma...

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US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method
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Department Of Justice Adds Firing Squad As Method For Federal Execution

Trump DOJ brings back 17th-century execution method to ‘strengthen the death penalty’

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

U.S. adding firing squads, electrocution, gassing to federal execution methods

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