Entries tagged with “Jimmy Lee Gray”

Federal Death Penalty

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May 05, 2026

New Analysis: In Seeking Firing Squad, Electrocution, and Nitrogen Gas Executions, DOJ Misrepresents American History and Law

On April 24, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report propos­ing an expan­sion of the fed­er­al death penal­ty, includ­ing adding fir­ing squad, elec­tro­cu­tion, and lethal gas as exe­cu­tion meth­ods. The DOJ char­ac­ter­izes the Biden Administration’s mora­to­ri­um on exe­cu­tions as​“an unprece­dent­ed break from the \[DOJ\]’s long­stand­ing approach to the death penal­ty,” while cast­ing this new effort as a return to form. The DOJ fur­ther claims that the three…