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Anonymous ID: af1a90 April 24, 2026, 8:43 a.m. No.24534221   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4222 >>4226 >>4230 >>4502 >>4564

The Justice Department Takes Actions to Strengthen the Federal Death Penalty

Friday, April 24, 2026

 

President Trump’s Day-One Executive Order Directed the Department to Prioritize Seeking and Implementing Death Sentences to Protect Public Safety

 

Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences—clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals. Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases. These steps are critical to deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving loved ones.

 

“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,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice is once again enforcing the law and standing with victims.”

 

On his first day in office, President Trump directed the Department of Justice to prioritize seeking death sentences in appropriate cases, promptly carrying out those sentences, and strengthening the death penalty. Since then, the Department has taken sustained action to implement that directive and reverse the Biden Justice Department’s efforts to erode the death penalty.

 

The Biden Justice Department, under Attorney General Merrick Garland, broke sharply from its longstanding approach to capital crimes and took extraordinary steps to weaken, delay, and dismantle the death penalty. In doing so, it caused untold harm to the public. Specifically, the Biden Justice Department:

 

Imposed an indefinite moratorium on executions based on a deeply flawed analysis asserting that the existing federal practice of execution by lethal injection with pentobarbital could not be carried out without risking “unnecessary pain and suffering.”

 

Declined to seek the death penalty in many horrific cases, even where career prosecutors and Biden’s own U.S. Attorneys recommended it, including cases involving child rapists and murderers; racially motivated mass shooters; and gangsters and drug dealers who murdered law enforcement officers, government witnesses, and informants.

 

Abandoned capital prosecutions that prior Attorneys General had lawfully authorized and that federal prosecutors were actively litigating—against the wishes of victims’ families and career prosecutors.

 

Urged President Biden to effectively empty federal death row by commuting the death sentences of 37 of 40 death-row inmates based on Attorney General Garland’s personal opposition to the death penalty without consulting all the victims’ families.

 

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Anonymous ID: af1a90 April 24, 2026, 8:44 a.m. No.24534222   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4226 >>4502 >>4564

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Under the leadership of President Trump and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Justice Department is committed to correcting these failures and restoring the lawful administration of the death penalty. The Department has rescinded the Biden-Garland moratorium on federal executions and has authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants. Acting Attorney General Blanche has already authorized seeking death sentences against nine of these defendants, including three MS-13 members, two of whom are illegal aliens, accused of murdering a federal witness.

 

Today, the Justice Department took the following steps to better achieve public safety and deliver justice to victims of the very worst crimes:

 

Released the Restoring and Strengthening the Federal Death Penalty Report, which examines the actions of the Biden-Garland Justice Department and, after a thorough analysis, finds that the use of pentobarbital to carry out death sentences is consistent with the Eighth Amendment.

 

Directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to reinstate the execution protocol adopted during the first Trump Administration, which relies on pentobarbital as the lethal agent.

 

Directed BOP to expand the execution protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad.

 

Directed BOP to examine relocating or expanding federal death row or constructing an additional execution facility to permit additional manners of execution.

 

Directed the Office of Legislative Affairs to finalize and deliver a comprehensive legislative proposal to Congress that will improve public safety and better achieve justice for victims.

 

In the coming weeks, the Department plans to take the following additional steps:

 

Consider a rule that will empower states to streamline federal habeas review of capital cases. If adopted, the rule will reduce by years the period between conviction and execution in state capital cases.

 

Publish a proposed rule prohibiting capital inmates from submitting clemency petitions, and the Office of the Pardon Attorney from considering such petitions, until court decisions in the inmate’s direct appeal and first collateral attack are final.

 

Revise the Justice Manual to return the Department to its historic approach to capital crimes, streamline the process for seeking death sentences, and ensure appropriate consultation with victims’ families.

 

Read the report here.

 

https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1437806/dl?inline

 

Updated April 24, 2026

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-takes-actions-strengthen-federal-death-penalty

Anonymous ID: af1a90 April 24, 2026, 9:03 a.m. No.24534262   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4281 >>4502 >>4560 >>4564

RUPERT LOWE'S RESTORE BRITAIN FIRST EVER ELECTION DEBATE VS NIGEL FARAGE'S REFORM UK & GREENS

 

Ahead of a crucial and potentially historic set of elections we are bringing you the first ever debate between:

 

-Zack Polanski and Mothin Ali’s surging Green Party represented by their candidate Fahima Mahomed

 

-Rupert Lowe’s new Restore Britain, which is standing candidates only in Great Yarmouth next month, represented by their spokesperson for the safety of women and children Orla Minihane

 

-Nigel Farage’s poll leading Reform UK represented by their Soho representative James Bembridge

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-r8lwCVcY

 

Rather see one between their leaders…

Anonymous ID: af1a90 April 24, 2026, 9:09 a.m. No.24534282   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4286 >>4292 >>4502 >>4528 >>4564

DOJ drops criminal probe of Fed Chair Powell, removes hurdle for Warsh confirmation

 

Key Points

  • The Department of Justice dropped its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

  • The move by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro removes a major hurdle to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace him.

  • Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, had put an effective hold on the Senate confirming Warsh unless the criminal investigation of Powell was dropped.

  • Pirro said the Fed’s inspector general will investigate cost overruns of the central bank’s multi-billion-dollar renovation of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The IG launched that probe in July 2025.

 

The Department of Justice on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, removing a major hurdle to the Senate confirming President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace him.

 

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, said she was abandoning the probe in a post on X. Her announcement came three days after Warsh testified before the Senate Banking Committee on his nomination.

 

Pirro had said just Wednesday that she was committed to continuing the criminal probe, which had been crippled by a federal judge’s ruling quashing subpoenas her office issued to the Fed.

 

Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican and Banking Committee member, had an effective hold on the full Senate from voting to confirm Warsh as Fed chair unless the criminal investigation ended.

 

Pirro, in her announcement dropping the probe, said that instead of her office, the Federal Reserve’s inspector general “has been asked this morning” to investigate cost overruns in the multi-billion-dollar renovation of the central bank’s headquarters in Washington.

 

She has claimed the renovation — which the Fed IG has been investigating since last summer — and Powell’s testimony about the project to the Banking Committee was her reason for investigating the Fed chief.

 

Powell and others had said that the real reason for Pirro’s probe was to pressure him and the Fed to lower interest rates as Trump wanted.

 

Powell had asked the inspector general in July 2025 to review the renovation project after Trump criticized its cost.

 

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Anonymous ID: af1a90 April 24, 2026, 9:10 a.m. No.24534286   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4292 >>4502 >>4564

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He noted at the time that the IG conducted an audit in 2021 to assess the Fed Board’s “process for planning and managing multiple renovation projects as well as procuring services under various renovation-related contracts.”

 

An IG spokesperson in a statement to CNBC on Friday said the IG is “actively working to complete” an “evaluation of the Board’s building renovation project,” and that it would make the results of that investigation available to the public and Congress when it is done.

 

Pirro’s Warning

Pirro in her X post said, “The IG has the authority to hold the Federal Reserve accountable to American taxpayers.”

 

“I expect a comprehensive report in short order and am confident the outcome will assist in resolving, once and for all, the questions that led this office to issue subpoenas,” she said.

 

“Accordingly, I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry,” Pirro said.

 

“Note well, however, that I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so.”

 

White House spokesman Kush Desai, in a statement, said, “American taxpayers deserve answers about the Federal Reserve’s fiscal mismanagement, and the Office of the Inspector General’s more powerful authorities best position it to get to the bottom of the matter.”

 

“The White House remains as confident as before that the Senate will swiftly confirm Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve Chairman to finally restore competence and confidence in Fed decision-making,” Desai said.

 

The Federal Reserve declined to comment.

 

CNBC has requested comment from Pirro’s office, Warsh, and Tillis, as well as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., and other members of that committee.

 

Earlier this week, Scott, R-S.C., advocated ending the criminal probe and turning the matter over to Congress.

 

In a CNBC interview, Scott said that switching responsibility for the investigation from Pirro’s office was essential to getting Warsh confirmed as chair, adding that any findings about the renovation could be made publicly available after a review was complete.

 

Scott suggested that the Banking panel could work with the House Financial Services Committee to “establish a committee that would have permanent oversight of construction projects within the jurisdiction of the Banking Committee.”

 

“Wherever that leads us, we should go. If that leads to a criminal referral, so be it,” Scott said. “But give us Kevin Warsh at the Fed so that we have access to all the information necessary.

 

Scott also said he thought Powell “was incompetent, not criminal.”

Warren Pushback

 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the top-ranking Democrat on the Banking Committee, said the abandonment of the Powell investigation “is just an attempt to clear the path for Senate Republicans to install President Trump’s sock puppet Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair.”

 

“Let’s be clear what the Justice Department announced today: they threatened to restart the bogus criminal investigation into Fed Chair Powell at any time while failing to drop their ridiculous criminal probe against Governor Lisa Cook,” Warren said.

 

Trump last summer sought to fire Cook, who, like Powell, had resisted his demands to cut interest rates, after an official in his administration claimed that she had made false statements on mortgage applications.

 

Cook denied those allegations and filed a lawsuit seeking to block her termination. She has remained on the Fed’s Board of Governors as the Supreme Court considers her case.

 

“Anyone who believes Donald Trump’s corrupt scheme to take over the Fed is over is fooling themselves,” Warren said. “The Senate should not proceed with the nomination of Kevin Warsh.”