US to allow firing squads, gas and electrocution for federal executions
In a memo, the Department of Justice says the move will "strengthen" the death penalty and deter crime.
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The department said in a 48-page memo released on Friday that this will "strengthen" the death penalty, "deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones".
The previous administration had placed a moratorium on most federal executions. Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden gave clemency to 37 of the 40 federal death row prisoners.
President Donald Trump directed the DOJ to resume seeking executions on his first day in office last year.
The memo also defends the use of lethal injection, calling the drug pentobarbital "the gold standard of lethal injection drugs".
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