Taking our country back to the 19th Century!
In his ongoing audition and bid to become the next Attorney General, Wannabe AG Todd Blanch announced the Department of Justice (DoJ) will bring back archaic and barbaric firing squads and lethal injections in federal executions.
From the DoJ’s Website: The Justice Department Takes Actions to Strengthen the Federal Death Penalty
Today, the Justice Department took the following steps to better achieve public safety and deliver justice to victims of the very worst crimes:
- Released the Restoring and Strengthening the Federal Death Penalty Report, which examines the actions of the Biden-Garland Justice Department and, after a thorough analysis, finds that the use of pentobarbital to carry out death sentences is consistent with the Eighth Amendment.
- Directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to reinstate the execution protocol adopted during the first Trump Administration, which relies on pentobarbital as the lethal agent.
- Directed BOP to expand the execution protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad.
- Directed BOP to examine relocating or expanding federal death row or constructing an additional execution facility to permit additional manners of execution.
- Directed the Office of Legislative Affairs to finalize and deliver a comprehensive legislative proposal to Congress that will improve public safety and better achieve justice for victims.
In the coming weeks, the Department plans to take the following additional steps:
- Consider a rule that will empower states to streamline federal habeas review of capital cases. If adopted, the rule will reduce by years the period between conviction and execution in state capital cases.
- Publish a proposed rule prohibiting capital inmates from submitting clemency petitions, and the Office of the Pardon Attorney from considering such petitions, until court decisions in the inmate’s direct appeal and first collateral attack are final.
- Revise the Justice Manual to return the Department to its historic approach to capital crimes, streamline the process for seeking death sentences, and ensure appropriate consultation with victims’ families.
Today’s archaic and barbaric actions rescinded a Biden-era moratorium on federal executions.