AND.... he actually DID sneakily put something out for the STATES to execute "as they saw fit" in Nov 2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/trump-approves-hanging-firing-squads-executions.html
The Trump administration on Friday dramatically expanded the federal governments ability to carry out the death penalty and use archaic methods of execution that would prove to be a national embarrassment if used in Trumps waning days as president.
At a time when every other constitutional democracy and many religious faiths have condemned capital punishment because of its cruel assault on human dignity, Trump and his cronies have again thumbed their noses at the world and at common decency.
The new rule is worded with deceptive simplicity: Federal executions are to be carried out by lethal injection or by any other manner prescribed by the law of the State in which the sentence was imposed. Behind this bureaucratic prose hides a stark fact: In our supposedly civilized nation, the federal government now will be able to hang, electrocute, gas, or shoot individuals if it does not want to kill them by lethal injection.
HOW MANY EXECUTIONS??? 13
THE MOST IN 120 YEARS
THAT ISN'T FAKE NEWS
JUST THE SPIN that was spewed out on tRump's base.