federal executions

The Indiana Supreme Court set a Dec. 18 execution date for a Joseph Corcoran, who was convicted in a 1997 quadruple homicide.

“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.

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.

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.

Friends of Nasih Khalil Ra’id say he was struggling to cope with conditions at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. The facility houses the U.S. prison bureau’s “Special Confinement Unit,” or federal death row.

The U.S. prison bureau reported the only Indiana resident on federal death row became unresponsive and died Friday. A spokesperson for the bureau declined to explain what caused Nasih Ra'id to become unresponsive.

In this episode, we’ll hear from experts convinced that justice officials considered race when they selected which people to kill — and when. Why that might be, and what it says about the federal death penalty’s ability to deliver justice, and mercy, without bias.

The U.S. Supreme Court prohibits executing people deemed mentally incompetent. But the Trump administration selected two people with severe mental illness for execution, including the only woman on federal death row.

An exhibition of Yuri Kadamov’s paintings, titled “I Was a Prisoner, and You Came to Me,” will be on display at the Juniper Gallery through Nov. 3.