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Death Penalty Methods Other Than Lethal Injection To Be Allowed By Feds Starting Next Month

Eric Quintanar
Death Penalty Methods Other Than Lethal Injection To Be Allowed By Feds Starting Next Month
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Beginning on December 24, 2020, the Department of Justice will allow the Bureau of Prisons to execute inmates on federal death row by means other than lethal injection.

The new protocol will permit officials to pursue executions through “any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed,” in addition to lethal injection, the method used in recent cases, according to The Associated Press.

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