The Trump Administration has announced the restoration of capital sentences in the United States, allowing the Department of Justice to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals.
The DoJ is readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during President Donald Trump’s first term, expanding it to include the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.
The measures, according to the U.S. government, have become necessary to deter the most barbaric crimes, deliver justice for victims, and provide long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the action followed President Trump’s directive to the Justice Department to prioritize pursuing death sentences in appropriate cases and promptly performing them.
Blanche accused the Biden Administration of failing to protect the people by refusing to seek and conduct the ultimate punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including child murderers, terrorists, and cop killers.
The AG said the previous DoJ, under Attorney General Merrick Garland, “weakened and dismantled the death penalty,” and lessened the sentences of 37 of 40 death-row inmates without consulting the victims’ families.
In December 2024, former President Joe Biden commuted the executions of 37 inmates to life sentences, except those of three inmates, including the Boston Marathon bomber and the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter.
Now, the Trump Administration, through the Justice Department, has rescinded the Biden-Garland moratorium on federal executions and has authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants.
Acting AG Todd Blanche has already approved the process to secure capital punishment for nine of the defendants, among them three MS-13 members accused of murdering a federal witness.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FoB) has been directed to reinstate the execution protocol, which relies on pentobarbital as the lethal agent, and implement firing squads as an additional method.
The DoJ plans to prohibit capital inmates from submitting clemency petitions, and the Pardon Attorney’s Office from considering such petitions, until the court decides on an inmate’s direct appeal and first collateral attack.
Since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, the U.S. government has executed 16 people by lethal injection—three under President George W. Bush and 13 under President Trump, between July 2020 and January 2021.
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