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The Justice Department has approved the use of firing squads and single-drug lethal injections for federal executions, marking a significant shift in the governments approach to capital punishment. This move aims to make executions more reliable and is part of a broader effort to enforce the law more stringently under President Trump. The decision comes after the Biden team suspended federal executions due to concerns about inmate suffering, but the DOJ now asserts that the use of pentobarbital, the drug in question, is painless and effective. Currently, there are only three individuals on federal death row, including Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Robert Bowers. The Justice Department is pursuing death penalties in at least forty-four new cases, focusing on terrorists, child killers, and cop murderers. This development underscores a more aggressive stance on the governments ultimate punishment, emphasizing victims and swift justice for heinous crimes.

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