Poison gas, firing squads: US approves more execution methods
Outgoing Trump administration paves way for additional methods of executing prisoners sentenced to death. The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas. It remains unclear whether the Justice Department will seek to use any methods other than lethal injection for executions in the future. A Justice Department official told The Associated Press news agency the federal government “will never execute an inmate by firing squad or electrocution unless the relevant state has itself authorized that method of execution”. In 2014, following a botched state execution in Oklahoma, President Barack Obama directed the Justice Department to conduct a broad review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs.
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