A federal inmate has remained stuck on death row in solitary confinement for four years despite a judge's ruling that the inmate is intellectually disabled and can never be put to death.
CHICAGO — When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7 foot cell, 23 hours a day.
"How can I not get this guy off death row?," an exasperated Monica Foster said in a recent interview."Well, I did get him off death row. But why can't I physically get him off death row?" Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters has said she's committed to reforms. Her visit to Terre Haute was part of regular inspections of U.S. prisons. It came months after a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana seeking to end the solitary confinement of federal death row inmates, saying that practice results in severe psychological damage.
National News States try to obscure execution details as drugmakers hinder lethal injection Webster, who wants to be transferred to a prison near his hometown of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, must be resentenced. It's supposed to be a formality because life in prison is the only available sentence. National News Biden's Justice Dept. keeps hard line in death row cases Lawrence based his Webster ruling on Atkins v. Virginia, a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2002 ruling that executing those with intellectual disabilities violated Eighth Amendment protections against"cruel and unusual" punishment.
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