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The United States is back today more than thirty years after the new law that allows the use of methods other than injection to carry out the death penalty.
The bill was drafted by the Justice Department with the blessing of outgoing President Donald Trump and comes to overturn many years of regulations.
Execution of those sentenced to death by any means other than injection was banned in 1993 and comes to the fore at a particularly turbulent political time for Americans.
Under a new law from the US Department of Justice, a person sentenced to death could even die from an electric shock.
The only case in which a law that wants harsher methods does not finally apply is that of being repealed by Joe Biden. After all, the new president of the United States has clearly stated his opposition to the use of the death penalty.
Last week, the Justice Ministry announced that it intended to execute three more prisoners on death row.
If it does so, along with two other executions already planned, it will have killed 13 convicts since July, marking, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, one of the deadliest periods in the history of such executions, at least since 1927.
All states that apply the death penalty allow execution by lethal injection, in accordance with the law. Some, however, allow other methods.
Alabama, for example, allows an inmate to choose between electrocution or nitrogen hypoxia (lethal dose of gas) rather than lethal injection. A law signed by the Utah governor in 2015 stipulates that an executive extract can be used if the substances required for lethal injection are not available on the scheduled date.
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