President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has reaffirmed its support for the death penalty, including the use of the firing squad as a method of execution, once prisoners have “exhausted their appeals,” per a Friday press release.

A South Carolina death row inmate who died by firing squad in April — the second in five weeks in the state to be killed via that method — suffered a prolonged death after shooters missed their target, his lawyers said. Mikal Mahdi was killed last ...