Ex-Death Row Inmates Commuted by Biden Try to Avoid Supermax (1)

Inmates whose death sentences were commuted to life sentences without parole under the Biden administration claim that an executive order issued by President Donald Trump that intensifies the severity of their sentences is unconstitutional.

The executive order and a memo by Attorney General Pamela Bondi direct the Bureau of Prisons to ensure that the 37 inmates whose sentences were commuted are “incarcerated indefinitely in the most oppressive conditions in the entire federal prison system,” the inmates say. The complaint, filed by 21 of the prisoners Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to prevent the ...