« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution  (Read 403 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mystery-ak

  • Owner
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 421,385
Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« on: Friday, Apr 24, 2026 08:39 am »
Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
By Robert McGreevy , Jake Gibson Fox News
Published April 24, 2026 12:02pm EDT

The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the federal death penalty.

"Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals," the DOJ memo obtained by Fox News read.

"Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases," the memo read.

This is a developing story, please check back for updates.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-readopting-firing-squad-execution
Logged
Democrat Party...the Party of Infanticide

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
Mark Twain

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:34

Smokin Joe: Stupid people vote. If you have enough of them, you don’t need to steal an election

Offline DefiantMassRINO

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15,278
  • Gender: Male
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #1 on: Friday, Apr 24, 2026 08:46 am »
Will executions require environmental approvals for the use of lead bullets?
Logged
"Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it’s entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." - Alan Simpson, Frontline Video Interview

Offline IsailedawayfromFR

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16,119
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #2 on: Friday, Apr 24, 2026 09:16 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on Friday, Apr 24, 2026 08:46 am
Will executions require environmental approvals for the use of lead bullets?
If they do, we can simply improve the environment by throwing these criminals into a pen of hungry hogs.
Logged
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell

Offline Free Vulcan

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 19,016
  • Gender: Male
  • Ah, the air is so much fresher here...
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #3 on: Friday, Apr 24, 2026 09:18 am »
Now we just need to bring back Old Sparky!
Logged
The Republic is lost.

Offline DefiantMassRINO

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15,278
  • Gender: Male
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #4 on: Friday, Apr 24, 2026 09:19 am »
Only if it's solar or wind powered.

Quote from: Free Vulcan on Friday, Apr 24, 2026 09:18 am
Now we just need to bring back Old Sparky!
Logged
"Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it’s entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." - Alan Simpson, Frontline Video Interview

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 67,819
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #5 on: Friday, Apr 24, 2026 09:23 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on Friday, Apr 24, 2026 08:46 am
Will executions require environmental approvals for the use of lead bullets?
No. There are alternatives.https://barnesbullets.com/bullets/bullet-material/solid-brass/
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline mountaineer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 68,101
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #6 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 04:45 am »
Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki
@MatthewWielicki
The last execution by firing squad in the United States was carried out in 2010... Under Barack Obama.
8:40 AM · Apr 25, 2026
Logged
[H]umanity repeats the worst mistakes of previous generations and ... every free, prosperous civilization will eventually be destroyed by that small fraction of its people who find no satisfaction in anything but anger.
-- Dean Koontz, "The Friend of the Family"

Offline Wingnut

  • The problem with everything is they try and make it better without realizing the old way is fine.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 26,278
  • Gender: Male
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #7 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 07:20 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on Friday, Apr 24, 2026 08:46 am
Will executions require environmental approvals for the use of lead bullets?

Lead can be hazardous to one's health...  and as such,  in California it must carry a Prop 65 warning label.
Logged
You don’t become cooler with age but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool.

Offline Timber Rattler

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6,188
  • Conservative Purist and Patriot
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #8 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 07:34 am »
Firing squads are traditionally for military punishment and gentlemen.

THIS should be the method of choice for all other condemned prisoners...


Logged
aka "nasty degenerate SOB," "worst of the worst at Free Republic," "Garbage Troll," "Neocon Warmonger," "Filthy Piece of Trash," "damn $#%$#@!," "Silly f'er," "POS," "war pig," "neocon scumbag," "insignificant little ankle nipper," "@ss-clown," "neocuck," "termite," "Uniparty Deep stater," "Never Trump sack of dog feces," "avid Bidenista," "filthy Ukrainian," "war whore," "fricking chump," "psychopathic POS," "depraved SOB," "Never Trump Moron," "Lazarus," "sock puppet," and "Timber Bunny."

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."  ---George Orwell

Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,908
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #9 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 07:55 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on Friday, Apr 24, 2026 09:18 am
Now we just need to bring back Old Sparky!

Was about to make this post... the electric chair is an american classic!
Logged

Offline Wingnut

  • The problem with everything is they try and make it better without realizing the old way is fine.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 26,278
  • Gender: Male
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #10 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 07:56 am »
Quote from: Timber Rattler on Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 07:34 am
Firing squads are traditionally for military punishment and gentlemen.

THIS should be the method of choice for all other condemned prisoners...




Too NASCAR.
Logged
You don’t become cooler with age but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool.

Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,908
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #11 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 07:59 am »
We could go Roman Empire style, bring back the crucifix... sort of a religious thing nowadays though.
Logged

Offline DCPatriot

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 49,175
  • Gender: Male
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #12 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 08:04 am »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 07:59 am
We could go Roman Empire style, bring back the crucifix... sort of a religious thing nowadays though.

It's NOT the method...it's the endless appeals and delays.

After being pronounced guilty by a military tribunal, the perp should be dragged outside and shot in the head.
Logged
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald

If we had just let them eat the Tide pods, none of this would be happening right now

Online Canuck Conservative

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,113
  • Gender: Male
  • Nature-loving Conservative!
Re: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
« Reply #13 on: Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 08:25 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on Friday, Apr 24, 2026 09:18 am
Now we just need to bring back Old Sparky!

Actually, they are ... the DOJ wants to use firing squads, the Electric Chair, and poison gas as viable methods of execution

There's a big backlog that's needs to be "addressed" ...
Logged
The elimination of the evil Soviet Union was one of the most glorious moments in Human History!!
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »