On July 25, 2019, the United States Department of Justice announced that Attorney General William P. Barr had directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt a proposed Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol. This Addendum replaces the three-drug procedure previously used in federal executions with a single drug—pentobarbital. Also pursuant to the Attorney General's direction, execution dates were set for five federal death row inmates: Daniel Lewis Lee, Lezmond Mitchell, Wesley Ira Purkey, Alfred Bourgeois, and Dustin Lee Honken.