Death by firing squad ...

The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, on May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Yours truly used to be ok with the death penalty until data came out regarding people executed who happened to be  innocent, something not acceptable in this writer's opinion. With this administration, reinstituting firing squads is more political than functional as this is a methodology used by dictatorships to quell dissent. Think Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia as examples. 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday.

The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that were used to carry out 13 executions during the first Trump administration — more than under any president in modern history. The Biden administration had removed pentobarbital from the federal protocol over concerns about the potential for unnecessary pain and suffering.

The moves were announced as part of a broader push to step up federal executions after a moratorium under the Biden administration. Only three defendants remain on federal death row after Democratic President Joe Biden converted 37 of their sentences to life in prison, though the Trump administration has so far authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants.

US executions since 1977

Since capital punishment was reinstated in the 1970s,
more than 1,600 prisoners have been executed in the United States,
the vast majority by state authorities.

Factoid.

Research estimates that at least 4.1% of defendants sentenced to death in the U.S. are innocent, meaning over 1 in 25 death row inmates is likely wrongly convicted. While over 200 people have been exonerated from death row since 1973, experts believe many innocent people are executed without their innocence being officially recognized. National Institutes of Health (.gov)

Any questions and ... think midterms. I know I have.