By Evaristo Lara
The Department of Justice announced that, as part of efforts to “strengthen” the federal death penalty, the administration led by President Donald Trump will restore firing squads and expedite cases that warrant it.
Through a statement, The agency points out that the new position assumed aims to exercise a greater degree of justice against highly dangerous criminals and also set a precedent for those who seek to emulate them.
“Among the measures incorporated are the readoption of the lethal injection protocol used during the first Trump administration, the expansion of the protocol to include other methods of execution, such as the firing squad, and the simplification of internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,” part of the document indicates.
From the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an order supporting the execution of people whose crimes warrant it.
Additionally, it required the attorney general to seek capital punishment in cases involving the murder of a law enforcement officer, as well as any incident in which a foreigner lacking moral standing has premeditatedly or advantageously taken the life of a U.S. citizen.
In fact, since his first stage at the head of the government, the Seventy-nine-year-old Republican resumed federal executions after almost two decades of having been paused.
However, when Joe Biden became president in 2021, the Democrat chose to establish a moratorium on executions in order to review policies and procedures. He even showed a gesture of humanity by sparing the lives of 37 of the 40 federal prisoners sentenced to death whose sentences were adjusted to life imprisonment without any possibility of obtaining parole in the future.
Recently, upon assuming the position of acting attorney general, Todd Blanche issued a statement reproaching the Biden administration for having benefited criminals who should be executed.
“The previous administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the maximum punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child killers, and police killers,” part of the letter states.
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