Justice Department Calls for Expansion of Federal Death Penalty

DOJ's new report asks Congress and states to widen the federal death penalty, accelerate executions, and revive firing squads and electrocution — reversing Biden's commutation of 37 federal death-row sentences. The mechanism to highlight: specific policy recommendations (faster appeals, broadened eligibility, alternative methods) that turn a symbolic Trump campaign line into an institutional agenda. Reuters notes Pope Leo condemned capital punishment the same day — the international-moral counterweight belongs in the context, not the lead.