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The Justice Department announced Friday it will adopt firing squads as a permitted federal execution method and reauthorize single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital. The moves reverse Biden administration policies and ramp up capital punishment, with the Trump administration having already authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants. Only three defendants remain on federal death row after President Biden commuted 37 sentences to life imprisonment.