{"id":72577,"date":"2026-04-24T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/us-justice-department-to-allow-firing-squads-as-federal-death-penalty-method\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:57:50","slug":"us-justice-department-to-allow-firing-squads-as-federal-death-penalty-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/us-justice-department-to-allow-firing-squads-as-federal-death-penalty-method\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s DoJ says it is taking steps to \u2018strengthen the federal death penalty\u2019 in opposition to Biden-era policies<\/p>\n<p>The US justice department announced on Friday that it is taking steps to \u201cstrengthen the federal death penalty\u201d, including bringing back firing squads and readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences \u2013 clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals\u201d the justice department said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-takes-actions-strengthen-federal-death-penalty\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/24\/doj-death-penalty-firing-squad-lethal-injection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s DoJ says it is taking steps to \u2018strengthen the federal death penalty\u2019 in opposition to Biden-era policies The US justice department announced on Friday that it is taking steps to \u201cstrengthen the federal death penalty\u201d, including bringing back firing squads and readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump administration. \u201cToday, the &#8230; <a title=\"US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/us-justice-department-to-allow-firing-squads-as-federal-death-penalty-method\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}