A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

Twenty-one former death row prisoners at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute are suing President ... been deemed a risk to prison staff or fellow inmates. And yet, they are being routinely ...

A federal inmate already serving multiple prison terms for murder has received a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for killing a fellow inmante, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Joshua ...

An inmate already serving multiple life sentences has been sentenced to life in prison again after he murdered his cellmate at the Federal Correctional Complex in ...

Prosecutors said Mebane was an inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute and was serving a ... examiner ruled the official cause of death to be asphyxiation and determined the ...

Death row inmates granted clemency by former President Joe Biden sued the Trump administration on Wednesday for ordering their incarceration under the most “oppressive conditions” available. President ...

Embattled former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has died at age 91. Ryan, who served as Illinois' governor from 1999 to 2003, passed away Friday morning after spending the last few days in hospice care, ...

33 of whom are currently housed in the federal prison in Terre Haute according to the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Tracker. The decision leaves only three people on federal death row. The federal ...

Dylann Roof, the South Carolina killer, is currently being housed at the maximum-security prison for death row inmates in Terre Haute, Indiana, and he has a pending commutation application filed ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S. Attorney offices, who prosecute the cases.