capital punishment

The state attorney general’s office maintains that Joseph Corcoran “long ago exhausted his legal challenges to his convictions and sentence.”

A motion filed with the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday seeks to stymie the state’s recent request for an execution date.

The proposed execution of Joseph Corcoran, convicted in four murders in 1998, would be the first state execution in Indiana in 15 years. The state plans to use a controversial drug to carry it out.

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons is reporting that a federal prisoner died in custody after a "perceived altercation" with another incarcerated individual. It was the Terre Haute facility's second deadly incident in as many months.

Just a few months after he took office, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a moratorium to halt federal executions. Now federal prosecutors say they will seek capital punishment for a white supremacist.

The Death Penalty Action group will call on Biden to order the demolition of the federal death chamber, located in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts filed the “Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act” in the U.S. House of Representatives. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is co-sponsoring the legislation.

Bureau policy allows staff to inspect all mail entering the facility. But so-called “special mail” — letters and packages clearly identified as attorney-client communication — can only be inspected while the recipient is present.

While President Joe Biden’s Justice Department paused federal executions and reversed decisions to seek death sentences in some cases, it continues to seek them in others.

But Shane Meehan still faces a murder charge in the fatal shooting of detective and federal task force agent Greg Ferency outside an F.B.I. field office last summer.