federal executions

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.

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.

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.

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, it's signaling plans to target them in other ways.

Outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland’s order cited reports of autopsies on executed prisoners that showed, in many cases, signs of a potentially excruciating condition in which blood flows into the lungs.

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.