Pam Bondi moves eight former death row inmates commuted by Biden to Colorado 'supermax' prison

FLORENCE, COLORADO: Eight of the country’s most dangerous inmates who were once condemned to die for murders that included prison stabbings, gang killings, and even the slaughter of two campers have just been hauled off to Colorado’s infamous “supermax” prison.

The Justice Department confirmed the transfers to Fox News, saying it’s all part of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s crackdown on what critics call former President Joe Biden’s clemency free-for-all.

From death row to supermax

The eight former death row inmates were quietly moved Tuesday, September 23, to the US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado (better known as ADX).

Justice Department officials confirmed the transfer, noting it’s just the beginning.

They’re part of the 37 federal death row inmates who scored a get-out-of-execution card last December, when then-President Biden commuted their sentences in a controversial last-minute move. Detractors blasted the record clemency spree as a political “Hail Mary” done without proper vetting.

That said, the transfers aren’t done yet. More of those commuted inmates are expected to arrive at ADX “within weeks,” with the full batch of 37 slated to be locked down there by “early next year,” according to a Justice Department source who spoke to Fox News.

Pam Bondi takes a hard line

While a commutation can’t be legally reversed, Bondi is finding ways to make sure these killers still pay. Justice Department officials told Fox News she’s working under Trump’s directives to ensure the “conditions of confinement” match the “security risks those inmates present because of their egregious crimes, criminal histories, and all other relevant considerations,” as an earlier DOJ memo put it.

“President Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of these monsters showed abhorrent disregard for our justice system and total disrespect for victims’ families already suffering through immense loss,” Bondi said in a statement to Fox News.

“After meeting with many of the victims’ families at the Department of Justice and promising to take action on their behalf, eight of these prisoners have been transferred to the Colorado super-max prison, ADX. This will ensure that they spend the remainder of their lives in conditions consistent with the egregious crimes they committed,” she added.

Not long after being sworn in, Bondi issued a memo vowing to “restore a measure of justice” for families who said they were blindsided by Biden’s clemency spree.

Gruesome rap sheets

The eight killers shipped to Colorado this week all carried first-degree murder convictions. Their rap sheets are gruesome, to say the least.

One butchered a married couple camping in the Ouachita National Forest in July 2003. Another kidnapped, robbed, and murdered a 51-year-old local bank president, chaining him to a concrete block before tossing him off a bridge into a lake.

Others murdered fellow inmates while already serving time, making them prime candidates for the nation’s tightest lockup.

ADX is no ordinary pen. It’s the only true federal “supermax” prison in the US, home to some of the world’s most notorious criminals. These include Ramzi Yousef of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, and al-Qaeda co-founder Mamdouh Mahmud Salim.

Families left stunned

Biden’s move to commute 37 death sentences shocked victims’ families, who told the DOJ they weren’t even given a heads-up. Some reportedly told the department they had been stunned by the eleventh-hour commutations.

Earlier this year, Bondi hosted families at the DOJ to hear their outrage firsthand. In February, she ordered the Bureau of Prisons to re-evaluate where the killers should be housed. They finalized on ADX, the prison known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.”

Biden’s critics say his clemency spree went further than even Barack Obama’s. While Obama mostly focused on drug offenders who met strict criteria under his Clemency Initiative, Biden extended mercy to killers whose crimes were especially heinous or violent, Fox News reported.

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