Trump’s Justice Department is bringing back firing squads for federal executions The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad. Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department reversed much of the work done under President Donald Trump’s first administration related to expanding the death penalty in federal cases, which the Justice Department has been peeling back. “Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration,” the Justice Department said in a release... View Article