This legislation would prohibit the imposition of death penalty as punishment for any violation of federal law and require the resentencing of those previously sentenced to death row. This bill is particularly important today. Last month, President Trump's Department of Justice announced that it was bringing back firing squads and seeking to return to the use of electrocution and lethal gas for executions. Meanwhile, the state of Alabama became the first government in the world to carry out executions by nitrogen suffocation, an untested and inhumane death penalty method. (04:25–04:37)
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Asserts that President Trump's DOJ announced the return of firing squads, electrocution, and lethal gas for executions.
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