Entries tagged with “Todd Blanche”

Apr 27, 2026

Department of Justice Releases Memo Calling for Expansion of Federal Death Penalty and New Methods

On April 24, 2026, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy released a detailed report, *Restoring and Strengthening the Federal Death Penalty*, call­ing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to rein­state use of a sin­­gle-drug (pen­to­bar­bi­tal) exe­cu­tion pro­to­col, and urg­ing Congress to enact sweep­ing leg­isla­tive changes that would expand the reach and speed of the fed­er­al death penal­ty. Alongside the release of the report, DOJ announced that it has direct­ed BOP to…