Just hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders, including one directing the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to help states obtain lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.
The executive order — titled Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety — directs the attorney general to ensure pro-death penalty states have a sufficient supply of drugs needed to carry out lethal injection. But those drugs are notoriously difficult to get, and states with lethal injection executions have turned to other methods as a result.
