DOJ expands execution methods to include firing squad

The U.S. Department of Justice has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt additional methods for carrying out federal death sentences. The new approved methods are execution by firing squad, nitrogen gas asphyxiation, and electrocution. This move is part of the Justice Department's broader effort to strengthen the federal death penalty system. The directive provides the Bureau of Prisons with more options to carry out executions when lethal injection is not feasible.