Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative ...

Both inmates asked for the U.S. Court in the Southern District of Indiana — which encompasses Terre Haute, where most federal death row inmates are held — to issue emergency orders blocking the ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

Death row populations in the United States have declined to historic lows. The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than any ...

Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted ... who are both in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, are refusing to sign the paperwork to accept the ...

Officials at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute are reporting the death of an inmate following an assault that took place Monday night. At about 7:30 p.m., an incarcerated individual was ...

U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row prisoners — currently held in Terre Haute — to a higher-security prison in Colorado. Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatra ...