The US Department of Justice said on Friday that it was planning to bring back several long-abandoned methods of execution— including firing squads, gas asphyxiation, and electrocution— as part of President Donald Trump’ s effort to expand the use of the federal death penalty.
Trump has vowed to restore the death penalty at the federal level, reversing the moratorium imposed by former President Joe Biden, who downgraded the sentences of nearly all 40 people on death row to life in prison without parole.
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