U.S. Justice Department resumes use of death penalty, schedules five executions

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades long dormant po...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades long dormant policy allowing the federal government’s use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.

The last federal execution took place in 2003. Since then, protracted litigation over the drugs historically used in lethal injection executions prevented the government from continuing the practice, according to Justice Department officials. Most recently in May, the department’s Office of Legal Counsel took steps to make it easier for states to carry out executions by declaring that the Food and Drug Administration lacked the power to regulate lethal injection drugs.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes the practice shouldn’t happen anywhere, spokesman Farhan Haq said.

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