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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

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

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row prisoners, reviving an execution method that hasn’t been used by the U.S. government in centuries.

Friday’s directive from the Department of Justice follows the president’s order to restart executions and aggressively seek the death penalty in future cases after former president Joe Biden ordered a pause on executions and commuted the sentences of more than three dozen people on death row.

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