politics
April 26, 2026
US Restores Firing Squads, Electrocution and Gas for Federal Executions
The Trump administration says it will expand federal execution methods and speed up death penalty cases after Biden paused executions and commuted most death row sentences
TL;DR
- The US Justice Department will re-adopt firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation for federal executions.
- The department is also streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.
- This policy allows for executions once inmates have exhausted their appeals.
- The decision reverses the approach of the Biden administration, which had paused federal executions.
- US public support for the death penalty is divided, with only a slim majority in favor.
- The United States is the only country in the Americas that actively carries out executions.
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