Justice Department recommends using firing squads for executions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration," the Justice Department said in a release Friday, "expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.
42% : Currently on death row are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history.
40% : In a memo released on April 24, the department said the move will "strengthen" the death penalty, "deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones".
32% : Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden granted clemency to 37 of the 40 federal death row prisoners.
12% : " The Biden administration had placed a moratorium on most federal executions and reversed much of the work done to expand the death penalty in federal cases, under Trump's first administration related to expanding the death penalty in federal cases.

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