The US Justice Department has expanded federal execution protocols to include firing squads, alongside reinstating pentobarbital lethal injections, reversing a Biden-era moratorium. Officials say the change aims to address logistical and legal challenges ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January, prioritizing the use of the death penalty in federal 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," a DOJ memo read.

Filing argues intellectual disability and ineffective counsel make execution unconstitutional