Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said his office consulted with relatives of slain Elwood police Officer Noah Shahnavaz, the Indiana attorney general's office and prosecutors experienced in handling death penalty cases.

The Clinton County prosecutor's office is seeking the death penalty against a man charged with murdering two women in the parking lot of an NHK factory in Frankfort late Wednesday.

Anti-death penalty advocates want President Joe Biden to dismantle the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana where 13 executions were carried out between July of 2020 and January 2021.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man charged in the killing last year of a 24-year-old Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Breann Leath who was fatally shot as she responded to a domestic violence call.

If both executions take place, the two men would become the sixth and seventh federal prisoners executed in the past two months.

With the execution of Lezmond Mitchell for the slayings of a 9-year-old and her grandmother, the federal government has now carried out more executions in 2020 than it had in the previous 56 years combined.

The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week following a hiatus of nearly two decades, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed.

A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man, said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the governments second execution this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute.

The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee came over the objection of the victims relatives and following days of legal wrangling and delays.

The bishops of Indiana issued a joint statement Friday.