The Department of Justice said on Friday it reinstated the use of lethal injection and expanded the execution protocol to include firing squad.

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in North Texas.

US authorities announced reviving methods of federal execution, including bringing back the firing squad and the electric chair.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a crazed mom accused of killing both of her ex-husbands on the same day — with the second slaying only discovered when she asked cops which of her murdered exes she was being quizzed about.

A federal prosecutor has submitted his recommendation on whether the Minnesota lawmaker shootings suspect should face the death penalty, but the content of the recommendation is not yet public.