death row

The American Civil Liberties Union sought a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from moving the prisoners to the so-called “supermax” facility in Florence, Colorado. It is considered the highest-security facility in the United States.

President Trump signed an executive order instructing justice officials to review the conditions of prisoners receiving clemency to ensure they reflect the "monstrous" crimes they committed.

Convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran told the high court justices he did not want to pursue further appeals and instead wishes to be executed on Dec. 18, as scheduled.

Death row spiritual advisors are struggling to support the prisoners to whom they minister – and each other – amid fears President-elect Donald Trump will restart executions.

“He cannot distinguish between reality and his delusions and hallucinations — his delusions are his reality.”

Ritchie was convicted in 2002 for the murder of a Beech Grove police officer.

According to prisoners serving death sentences, temperatures have been uncomfortably high at the United States Penitentiary-Terre Haute. Outside temperatures have reached into the 90s since the outage began.

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

In a letter sent to two Connecticut lawmakers last month and later obtained by WFIU/WTIU News, chemical supplier Absolute Standards, Inc. says it's done making pentobarbital for the U.S. government.

Indiana hasn’t carried out an execution in more than a decade. But the state is home to federal death row, inside a special facility in Terre Haute where the U.S. carries out all federal executions.