A Department of Justice report issued Friday calls for returning the firing squad to the options for executing inmates facing the death penalty.
Thereportsaid the Biden Justice Department failed in its mission to carry out lawful executions, requiring a set of rules for capital cases.
“Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” according to a Department of Justicenews releasethat said the department is seeking to strengthen the federal death penalty.
“Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,” the release said.
“These steps are critical to deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones,” the release said.
In the report’s discussion of restoring the firing squad as an option, the report noted, “The Supreme Court has never rejected a method of execution as unconstitutional.”
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“The Court first considered whether a method of execution comported with the Eighth Amendment in 1878 in Wilkerson v. Utah. There, the Court held that death by firing squad does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment,” the report said.
The report noted that a liberal Supreme Court justice is even on board.
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