White House to Bring Back Firing Squads as Pope Leo XIV Calls for US Death Penalty to Be Abolished

April 24, 2026 World News

The Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex, where federal executions are carried out, is seen on July 15, 2020.

The federal government says it is moving to ‘strengthen’ the federal death penalty while the Pope is calling for an end to capital punishment.

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