This summer, the US Justice Department has restarted the practice of federal executions after a 17-year hiatus. Since then, eight people have been put to death by…
The US Justice Department has amended execution protocols, allowing for federal death row inmates to be put to death using methods other than lethal injection, which could potentially include inhaling nitrogen gas, firing squads and even hangings. According to the rule, which was published in the Federal Register on Friday, the US government could now use “any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed”, to carry out federal executions. The list of these “other” ways to carry out capital punishment in US states is not long, but could be surprising to those unfamiliar with American executions.
