The U.S. Department of Justice said it will adopt firing squads as a permitted federal execution method while also reauthorizing single-drug pentobarbital lethal injections, according to officials speaking Friday. The move is part of a broader effort to expedite capital punishment after a Biden-era moratorium. The update would allow federal authorities to use firing squad—an approach not previously included in federal execution protocols—alongside a pentobarbital protocol the Biden administration removed due to concerns about unnecessary pain. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the DOJ is once again “enforcing the law,” framing the prior halt as a failure to protect the public. Only three defendants remain on federal death row after Biden converted 37 sentences to life in prison, but the Trump administration authorized seeking death sentences against dozens of additional defendants.