DOJ says it will employ firing squads, electrocution again for federal executions

The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of executing individuals convicted of the gravest federal crimes, the Department of Justice mentioned on Friday in a report that noted difficulties in getting drugs for lethal injections.

The report was a fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s promise to resume capital punishment in his second term. In his first term, which ended in 2021, he resumed it after a 20-year gap, executing 13 federal prisoners with lethal injections in his final few months in office.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who released the report, has authorized seeking death sentences against nine the public after Trump rescinded a moratorium on federal executions by his predecessor, Joe Biden, the department mentioned. This also touches on aspects of dividends.

“Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,” it remarked in a statement.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice is once again enforcing the law and standing with victims,” Blanche commented.

In the report, Blanche instructed the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons to modify its execution protocol “to include additional, constitutional manners of execution that are currently provided for by the law of certain states,” pointing to the older methods of firing squads and electrocution, and the novel gas asphyxiation method pioneered by Alabama in 2024.

“This modification will help ensure the Department is prepared to carry out lawful executions even if a specific drug is unavailable,” the report mentioned.

Biden, a Democrat, commuted the sentences of 37 of the humans awaiting executions on federal death row, leaving only three men.

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