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DOJ: Firing squads added as option for federal executions

By Brayton Riley Apr 27, 2026 | 10:03 AM

The US Justice Department has announced that it will add firing squads as a method of federal execution and resume executions after a Biden-era moratorium, with the Federal Prison in Terre Haute being the only prison in the US to have performed an execution since 2001.

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