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The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to expand the use of the federal death penalty, including through the deployment of firing squads.

The announcement on Friday was part of a policy document issued by the Department of Justice, setting out the legal argument for various methods of execution.

It touted steps for “restoring and strengthening” the death penalty as integral to the pursuit of justice.

“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 Justice Department said in a news release.

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[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Firing squads are too clean, I want gallows, I want gallows run by someone who ain’t any count at running a gallows, so they all die in terrible ways

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 26 points 2 days ago

I think I read that some WW2 Nazi wanted to be killed by firing squad after Nuremberg, but they told him no. Firing squads are for soldiers. Hanging is for criminals, so he would hang.

[–] ReachMinusOne@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sounds like we need to resurrect this guy. He was allegedly pretty terrible at his job, and several of the individuals he hanged did not die a quick death.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

There is a Behind the Bastards episode on him

https://youtu.be/gaJtZ5cF8Ac

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I have no problem with Nazi executions at Nuremberg, even if they were horrific, but this dude sounds like a cowardly blowhard who got to live out his sadistic shitty dreams.

The satisfaction I felt when I got to the end of the WP bio and read this: "While changing a lightbulb and standing in a pool of water, Woods was accidentally electrocuted on July 21, 1950 and buried in Toronto Township Cemetery, Toronto, Kansas."

In the end, he got the chair. Taken out by the competition.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Holy cow. This guy.

“While changing a lightbulb and standing in a pool of water, Woods was accidentally electrocuted on July 21, 1950…”

He’s a looney tunes character

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

That is who I was thinking of lol

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Even the gallows is probably too good for them. There's plenty of YA novels to draw inspiration from, let's do some Hunger games like thing.