DOJ Proposes Rule to Reduce Time Between Capital Conviction and Capital Punishment

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the proposal is the next step in the administration’s policy to faithfully enforce capital punishment laws.

A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, in Lucasville, Ohio, on Aug. 29, 2001. Mike Simons/Getty Images

The Trump administration is reasserting its support for capital punishment in a federal rule proposal it says will reduce the time between conviction and execution in death penalty cases.

The Justice Department’s (DOJ) proposed rule will streamline the federal review of capital cases, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a DOJ statement Tuesday.