2026年4月24日 美国东部时间下午12:35 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：霍姆斯·莱布兰德
3小时前
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美国司法部周五宣布，将继续推进加快联邦死刑案件审理的相关工作，其中包括扩大处决方式，新增枪决死刑。
在乔·拜登总统任期内，司法部推翻了唐纳德·特朗普首届政府时期在联邦案件中扩大死刑适用范围的多项举措，而如今司法部正逐步取消这些逆转措施。
司法部在周五的一份声明中表示：“此次采取的措施包括重新采用特朗普首届政府时期使用的死刑注射协议，并将该协议扩展至包含枪决在内的更多处决方式，同时简化内部流程以加快死刑案件审理进度。”
目前共有五个州允许对已穷尽所有上诉程序的死刑犯使用枪决处决。今年3月，一名因双重谋杀罪被定罪的南卡罗来纳州男子成为自20世纪70年代以来第四位被枪决处决的罪犯。
代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在周五的一份声明中称：“上一届政府拒绝针对包括恐怖分子、杀害儿童的凶手以及袭警者在内的最危险罪犯寻求并执行终极刑罚，未能履行保护美国民众的职责。在特朗普总统的领导下，司法部将再次严格执法，与受害者站在一起。”
声明显示，司法部还计划“简化寻求死刑判决的流程”，并缩短从定罪到执行死刑的间隔年限。
*本报道正在持续更新中。
Trump’s Justice Department is bringing back firing squads for federal executions
2026-04-24 12:35 PM ET / CNN
By Holmes Lybrand
3 hr ago
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice Allan B. Polunsky Unit sits in the distance July 14, 2018 in Livingston.
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The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.
Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department reversed much of the work done under President Donald Trump’s first administration related to expanding the death penalty in federal cases, which the Justice Department has been peeling back.
“Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration,” the Justice Department said in a release Friday, “expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.”
Five states allow for death by firing squad for those convicted of the death penalty who have exhausted the appeal process. In March, a South Carolina man convicted of a double murder became the fourth person to be put to death by a firing squad since the 1970s.
“The prior administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the ultimate punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child murderers, and cop killers,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Friday. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice is once again enforcing the law and standing with victims.”
The Department is also looking to “streamline the process for seeking death sentences” and cut down the number of years between conviction and execution, the announcement states.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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