EXCLUSIVE: Bondi DOJ transfers death row inmates commuted by Biden to ‘supermax’prison

President Donald Trump walks with Attorney General Pam Bondi during a visit to the Justice Department March 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

More are expected soon.all 37 death row inmates commuted by Biden are expected to be moved to the prison by “early next year,�

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The effort comes as Bondi and the Trump administrationhave sought to reverse some of the Biden administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform, with an emphasis on cracking down on violent crime.

�conditions of confinement” are “consistent with the security risks those inmates present because of their egregious crimes, criminal histories and all other relevant considerations,” according to an earlier DOJ memo. 

“Two more monsters who plotted and violently murdered innocent people will spend the rest of their lives in our country’s most severe federal prison,� 

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“This Department of Justice will continue to seek accountability for the families blindsided by President Biden’s reckless commutations of 37 vicious predators.”

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Like the eight former death row inmates sent to Colorado’s supermax prison, the two criminals processed in ADX Thursday have been convicted of particularly heinous crimes. 

One individual chased down his ex-girlfriend from Roanoke, Virginia, to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he cut phone lines to the apartment she was living in before using cans of gasoline to set the building on fire.

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The ADX supermax prison in Florence, Colo.(Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Sygma via Getty Images)

Though she escaped via a second-story window and was hospitalized for second- and third-degree burns, he followed her back to her family’s home in Virginia two months later, where he gunned her down on the streets of her neighborhood and just steps from her mother. 

Another inmate, a formerNew Orleans police officerknown as “Robocop” for his large physical demeanor and aggressive law enforcement style, was caught on tape by the FBI as he ordered and orchestrated the killing of a mother of three who had come to the precinct hours earlier to submit a supposedly confidential brutality complaint about his behavior that she witnessed on her way home the night before. 

The FBI had stumbled upon the conversation as part of a broader probe it had started to investigate a so-called “protection racket” between cocaine dealers in New Orleans and the city’s police force, which had been guarding a warehouse stocked with the drug.The same officer was later revealed as one of the chief conspirators in the protection racket. 

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Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

He was also found to have falsely testified in two murder cases, including one murder he has since been linked to.The statements were used to exonerate four men from prison, including three teenagers who had been wrongfully convicted of a murder 28 years earlier.

ADX is the only true federal “supermax” prison in the U.S., and its inmates are as notorious as the prison’s reputation. 

Among them are Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing;Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers;former Sinola Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán, or “El Chapo”;and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, the co-founder of al Qaeda.

Shortly after her confirmation as attorney general, Bondi issued a memo aimed at “restoring a measure of justice” to the victims’ families. 

The measures granted by Biden earned more criticism than former President Barack Obama.�s clemency actions focused on commuting the sentences of federal inmates who met certain criteria outlined underhis administration’s Clemency Initiative.

Bondi hosted victims’ families earlier this year to hear their concerns about the commutations, the DOJ said.Some said they had been stunned by the eleventh-hour commutations and that they had not been given a heads-up by the Biden administration.

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