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streetfestival lemmy.ca streetfestival@lemmy.ca
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April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it ​announced on Friday, noting difficulties in obtaining drugs for lethal injections.

The recommendation came in a Justice Department report fulfilling Trump's promise to resume capital punishment at the federal level in ‌his second term, although it will likely be several years before another federal execution can be scheduled.

Shortly before his first term ended in 2021, Trump, a Republican, resumed executions at the federal level after a 20-year gap, putting 13 federal prisoners to death with lethal injections in his final few months in office. There had been just three federal executions in the preceding 50 years.

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BallyM lemmy.world BallyM@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-19
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EU: “Deeply concerned.”

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thericofactor sh.itjust.works thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-22
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I bet they will regret it when it's used against them in a while.

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🦄🦄🦄 feddit.org Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
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More preparation for the trans genocide

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ZDL lazysoci.al ZDL@lazysoci.al
Joined: 2025-06-06
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it's interesting how "just not have the death penalty", you know, like every other major country, isn't on the table.

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Tim lemmy.snowgoons.ro timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro
Joined: 2026-01-27
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Gas chambers 🥰.

What a country...

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karashta piefed.social karashta@piefed.social
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I bet this is to murder all the people they've thrown into camps.

Notice how all these methods can be done to people en masse in some way?

Gas chambers, electrified floors, firing squads....

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x00z lemmy.world x00z@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-26
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The article has a little part for the reason the drugs are hard to come by:

Pharmaceutical companies refuse to sell prison systems their drugs that can be used in executions, partly to comply with a European Union ban. U.S. prisons have had to seek out smaller, less-regulated compounding pharmacies ​willing to brew copies of those drugs.

Some background from another article:

Europe won’t allow the drugs to be exported because of its fierce hostility to capital punishment.

The phenomenon started nine years ago when the EU banned the export of products used for execution, citing its goal to be the “leading institutional actor and largest donor to the fight against the death penalty.” But beefed up European rules mean the results are being most strongly felt in the United States now, with shortages becoming chronic and controversial executions making headlines.

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workerONE lemmy.world workerONE@lemmy.world
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Gas chambers 🥰. What a country...

It's nitrogen gas without oxygen. Often used for assisted suicide.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
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I bet this is to murder all the people they've thrown into camps. Notice how all these methods can be done to people en masse in some way? Gas chambers, electrified floors, firing squads....

I bet they'll try to pull some shit like this at some point (that is, if they even bother pretending there's a process):

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce9mernj0gko

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
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I bet they will regret it when it's used against them in a while.

Wish I could be this optimistic

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Tim lemmy.snowgoons.ro timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro
Joined: 2026-01-27
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It's nitrogen gas without oxygen. Often used for assisted suicide.

And?

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Akh lemmy.world Akh@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-09
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It's nitrogen gas without oxygen. Often used for assisted suicide.

You seem to miss the point. The US has become Nazi land, with real nazis running the government and now they are bringing back gas chambers

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cecilkorik lemmy.ca cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-14
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It's nitrogen gas without oxygen. Often used for assisted suicide.

And now it will also be used for state-sponsored holocaust against innocents presumed guilty of unspecified and unverified crimes. It's multi-purpose!

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variablenine lemmy.blahaj.zone variablenine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-03-08
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More preparation for the trans genocide

Practice lethal self defense! I hope to death that it will never come to that, but if they ever come for our heads, they better be prepared to lose their own! Better to have the skills and not need it, than to need it and not have it

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Yuccagnocchiyaki lemmy.world Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
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Godamned Nazis. ALL OF THEM

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Dasus lemmy.world Dasus@lemmy.world
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I bet this is to murder all the people they've thrown into camps. Notice how all these methods can be done to people en masse in some way? Gas chambers, electrified floors, firing squads....

Electrifying a floor to the extent it'd kill a roomfull of people would be massively challenging. Perhaps a pool of water... but I don't really want to be giving anyone any ideas.

But anyway, good point.

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Dasus lemmy.world Dasus@lemmy.world
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It's nitrogen gas without oxygen. Often used for assisted suicide.

I think you need to watch s01e02 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Death Penalty: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Tiresia slrpnk.net Tiresia@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-07-16
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Practice lethal self defense! I hope to death that it will never come to that, but if they ever come for our heads, they better be prepared to lose their own! Better to have the skills and not need it, than to need it and not have it

And practice lethal community self-defense (i.e. well-organized militias). Lanchester's Square Law makes individual self defense almost irrelevant compared to community organizing.

Suppose for simplicity that skill, equipment, preparation, etc. all balance out and everybody is equally capable of killing others.

Then, if there are 5 assailants and 1 of you there is a 1/6 chance you shoot one of them, and 100% chance you die.

But if there are 5 of you and 5 of them, the situation is symmetrical. One side will have 4 casualties, the other 5, and it's a coin toss which.

And if there are 25 of you and 5 of them, the situation is reversed, and you'll walk away with one or two casualties.

By increasing your numbers 5-fold, you increase your effectiveness 25-fold.

The law doesn't apply when you're outranged, like if they decide to do artillery bombardment like in the Battle of Bunker Hill, but guerilla tactics and infrastructure can mitigate that.

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Phoenixz lemmy.ca phoenixz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-10
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So step one, bring concentration camps back
Step two, bring back gas chambers?

Really now?

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TrippingBalls lemmy.world TrippingBalls@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-15
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Let's start with the pedos in the TrumpStein files... Those that used their power and wealth to abuse young children

Can't think of crimes more grave than that

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