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“Of course I would,” Trump says, responding to a question about whether or not he would immediately lift Attorney General Merrick Garland's moratorium on federal executions if he's reelected in the fall.

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.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the judge who oversaw Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial to investigate the defense’s claims of juror bias and determine whether his death sentence should stand.

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 decision marks the first time that President Joe Biden's Justice Department has authorized a new pursuit of the death penalty.

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.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Terre Haute, asks a federal judge to allow clergy to have physical contact with the men for whom they serve as spiritual advisors.

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.

Death penalty opponents expected Biden to act within weeks of taking office to fulfill his 2020 campaign promise to end capital punishment on the federal level. Instead, Biden has taken no steps toward fulfilling that promise.