Officials took a former death row prisoner from his cell in Terre Haute and transported him to South Carolina over the weekend.

The request comes shortly after Gov. Mike Braun suggested that state lawmakers take up debate on capital punishment.

The Indiana Parole Board did not recommend clemency for death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie, convicted of the 2000 killing of Beech Grove police officer William Toney.

Disability rights advocates said Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's "profound brain damage" should spare him from execution.

The ACLU of Indiana is suing the U.S. Bureau of Prisons over conditions on federal death row, which is housed in Terre Haute.