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A federal inmate already serving a life sentence has been sentenced to a second life term after pleading guilty to fatally strangling a fellow inmate and stabbing a second inmate at a federal prison in Indiana.

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.

The man convicted of killing 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 arrived at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute on August 25.

Prison officials have moved a former drug dealer convicted of killing a 16-year-old Texas girl off federal death row years after a judge deemed him intellectually disabled and vacated his death sentence.

Lawrence Taylor is accused of killing the other inmate on January 12, 2019.

Join us this week as we talk about federal death penalties that have been carried out this year and those scheduled to take place before the president-elect is sworn in.