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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.

Florida state attorney Tom Bakkedahl says he is opening an investigation and hopes to seek the death penalty against Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., for the murders of four family members in 2006.

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.

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.

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of almost all prisoners on federal death row, weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

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.

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.

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.

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.