The Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, acting AG Todd Blanche says

The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital cases.

The Department of Justice said on Friday it reinstated the use of lethal injection and expanded the execution protocol to include firing squad.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January, prioritizing the use of the death penalty in federal cases.

Chadwick Willacy maintained his innocence before Florida executed him for the first-degree murder of elderly neighbor Marlys Sather, set on fire in 1990.