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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.

Lawmakers and activists opposed to the death penalty say Hamden, Connecticut-based chemical supplier Absolute Standards, Inc., sold pentobarbital to the first Trump administration for 13 lethal injections in 2020 and 2021.

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.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Trump administration will pursue death sentences against federal defendants “whenever possible.”

In his first address to Congress since returning to power, President Donald Trump is calling on lawmakers to expand the federal death penalty to include mandatory executions for murdering a police officer.

Lawmakers in Connecticut want to ban state companies from profiting off drugs used in federal executions, all of which are carried out in Indiana.

U.S. officials say five prisoners sustained injuries requiring outside medical attention Monday at a federal prison in Terre Haute. A spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said that “multiple inmates were observed fighting.”

A Republican-authored bill to abolish — or at least alter — Indiana’s death penalty law is gaining traction.

Two mass clemency decisions contributed. But more prisoners leave death row after courts overturn their sentences. As a result, new death sentences no longer replenish death-row populations. Executions, too, are happening less often.

Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility is considered America’s most secure prison.