In a significant shift in U.S. judicial policy, the White House reactivated this and other methods of execution.
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The Department of Justice (in English, DOJ) approved the inclusion of firing squad as a method for carrying out the death penalty for those convicted of crimes at the federal level. The announcement was made through a press release, which explains that the Trump administration is taking steps to “restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain and execute legal capital sentences.”
These measures include, in addition to the return of the firing squad as an option for capital punishment, the readoption of the lethal injection protocol used during the first Trump administration. The statement also states that the president ordered the DOJ to “prioritize the search for death sentences in appropriate cases” and to execute those sentences
“promptly.”
“The previous administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to seek and execute maximum punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child killers and police killers,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in the brief.
Todd Blanche, current acting attorney general of the United States.
Trump buries Biden's moratorium and accelerates
federal executions.
Since Trump returned to the White House, his government's justice portfolio revoked the Biden-era moratorium that sought to erode the death penalty as punishment and has already authorized the search for this penalty against 44 defendants awaiting trial.
It should be remembered that former Attorney General Merrick Garland, following the directives of former President Joe Biden, drastically broke with the traditional approach of the U.S. government to capital crimes and refused to seek the death penalty in multiple atrocious cases, even when prosecutors recommended it given the The seriousness of the case and the families of the victims were opposed to this measure.
Cases involving rapists and murderers of children, perpetrators of mass shootings, or drug traffickers who murdered law enforcement officers and witnesses saw their capital punishment processes abandoned. Thus, Biden was responsible for emptying the federal death row, since he also commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates who had previously been sentenced
to the maximum sentence. Firing squads are back: The Trump administration proposed this method of execution for 44 convicts
