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New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions

by Michael Balsamo
| November 27, 2020 10:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas.

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