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DOJ bringing back firing squads as option for federal executions

(NewsNation) — The Justice Department is moving to add the firing squad as a federal execution method and resume executions after a Biden-era moratorium. The department said Friday it is directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reinstate execution ...

Florida by far leads the nation in executions the past 16 months. Why?

Last year, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis executed more death row inmates than any other state. Florida is on a similar pace this year.

Justice Dept. aims to ramp up executions

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday. The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that were used to carry out 13 executions during