Feds seek death penalty for ADX inmate charged with murder of another inmate ...Middle East

DENVER (KDVR) -- The federal government has authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty for an inmate at a maximum-security facility in southern Colorado charged with killing another inmate in 2020.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi signed off on the capital punishment pursuit for Ishmael Petty, 56, charged with first-degree murder and murder by a federal prisoner serving a life sentence in the Sept. 19, 2020, death of a fellow inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary-Florence, Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. Petty was already serving a life sentence for killing another fellow inmate at another federal prison in 2002, and had assaulted ADX employees in 2013, KXRM reported at the time.

This marks the second Trump administration capital punishment pursuit this term after Bondi also directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Petty's case is being prosecuted by the Violent Crime and Immigration Enforcement Section of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the Criminal Division’s Capital Case Section.

Colorado in 2020 abolished the death penalty, but according to the Death Penalty Information Center, the federal death penalty applies to all 50 states.

It is "used rel­a­tive­ly rarely," however. Just sixteen fed­er­al exe­cu­tions have been car­ried out in the mod­ern era, all by lethal injec­tion, with 13 occur­ring in a six-month peri­od between July 2020 and January 2021.

This would be the first modern-era federal death sentence in the U.S. District of Colorado if prosecutors are successful, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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