Firing Squads & Pentobarbital: Justice Dept. Revives Death Penalty

0:00It's April 24th, Tampa Bay News, today starts now AI-powered and ready. I'm Cory with the story. The Justice Department just greenlit firing squads for federal executions, marking the first time ever for the feds. They're also bringing back single drug lethal injections using Pinto Barberto to beef up the death penalty system. Right now, only three people sit on federal death row after former President Joe Biden switched 37 sentences to life in prison. This move comes from the Trump administration's push to ramp up capital punishment. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch called out the Biden era for dropping the ball on tough enforcement against serious offenders like terrorists and cop killers. Back in Trump's first term, they carried out 13 executions with Pinto Barbertole, all the most in modern history before Biden pulled it over pain. The department now says Biden got the science wrong, insisting Pinto Barbertole knocks

1:01inmates out fast with no suffering. Five states already allow firing squads, Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah. Death penalties legal in 27 states total. Those three on federal death row are Dylan Roof, the Charleston church shooter who killed nine. DigiCars are naive, the Boston Marathon bomber, and Robert Bowers, who gunned down 11 at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue. Meanwhile, the Feds are chasing death penalties for at least 44 more defendants, signaling a major shift back to aggressive justice as these. Protocols roll out.