Entries tagged with “Pam Bondi”

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Feb 12, 2026

Federal Judge Rebukes DOJ and Blocks Transfer of Former Federally Death-Sentenced Prisoners to Supermax Prison

In an order dat­ed February 11, 2026, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tion tem­porar­i­ly block­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment from trans­fer­ring many for­mer fed­er­al­ly death-sen­­tenced pris­on­ers to the noto­ri­ous Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, known as​“ADX.” Judge Kelly found it​“like­ly” that the gov­ern­ment vio­lat­ed the pris­on­ers’ Fifth Amendment due process rights when it deprived them of a​“mean­ing­ful…

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Feb 10, 2026

Federal Government Says It Will Transfer Former Federal Death-Sentenced Prisoners to Supermax Prison Within Weeks

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment says it plans to trans­fer​“almost all” for­mer fed­er­al death row pris­on­ers whose sen­tences were com­mut­ed by President Biden to the nation’s most noto­ri­ous and restric­tive prison with­in the next sev­er­al weeks, accord­ing to a court fil­ing dat­ed February 4, 2026. In a two-page notice filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department informed Judge Timothy J. Kelly that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) intends to move…

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Feb 05, 2026

New Analysis: Why the Death Penalty is Off the Table for Luigi Mangione

On January 30, a fed­er­al judge ruled that Luigi Mangione can­not face the death penal­ty in his upcom­ing tri­al for the mur­der of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. She dis­missed two counts from his fed­er­al indict­ment, one of which car­ried the death penal­ty as a poten­tial sen­tence. Described by *The New York Times* as​“a sig­nif­i­cant blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to revive the use of the death penal­ty in fed­er­al cas­es,” this deci­sion invalidates a…

Sep 24, 2025

Mangione’s Counsel Challenge Constitutionality of Federal Death Penalty as Arbitrary

In a motion filed September 20, 2025, attor­neys for Luigi Mangione, indict­ed in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, have filed a broad chal­lenge to the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the fed­er­al death penal­ty, argu­ing that it is applied arbi­trar­i­ly, in vio­la­tion of Fifth Amendment’s due process pro­tec­tions and the Eighth Amendment’s pro­hi­bi­tion on cru­el and unusu­al pun­ish­ments. They are ask­ing the United States District Court in the Southern District…

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Apr 21, 2025

A.C.L.U. Lawsuit Seeks to Prevent Transfer of Former Federally Death-Sentenced Prisoners to ​“Supermax” Prison

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and sev­er­al oth­er orga­ni­za­tions rep­re­sent­ing a group of for­mer­ly fed­er­al­ly death-sen­­tenced pris­on­ers filed a fed­er­al law­suit on April 16, 2025 seek­ing to pre­vent their trans­fer to the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, known as​“ADX.” The trans­fers were threat­ened by the Department of Justice in response to President Donald Trump’s January 20th Executive Order 14164, which…

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Apr 07, 2025

U.S. Attorney General Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione, Marking First Federal Death Sentence Sought By This Trump Administration

On April 1, 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she has direct­ed act­ing U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, Matthew Podolsky, to seek the death penal­ty against Luigi Mangione for the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This is the first time AG Bondi has direct­ed pros­e­cu­tors to seek the death penal­ty since President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2025, when he issued an exec­u­tive order includ­ing a call to​“restore” the fed­er­al death penal­ty. In a…