Feds to seek a death penalty for the federal inmate

Oklahoma City – The Federal Prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday that they will catch up with the death penalty for an inmate who is accused of strangling its cellmate in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.

The US lawyer Robert Troester for the western district of Oklahoma submitted the intention to apply for the death penalty against 27-year-old Jasper Reed.

A Federal Grand Jury in Oklahoma City returned an indictment on Tuesday for three points, in which the reeds were charged with the first degree murder, attempted murder and assault, which led to serious physical injuries.

The US Bureau of Prisons' Federal Transfer Center, which houses around 1,400 male and female occupants, is a main center for federal prisoners who are transferred across the country in prison facilities.

The prosecutors claim that Reed, who served the time in the federal prison for a crime from New Mexico in the federal prison, called his first cell mate on April 27, 2024 in court documents as a TR as a TR and seriously injured.

A correction officer saw Reed on both men on the man with his hands around his neck and blood before he and other officers could separate the two, according to an affidavit that was signed by a federal agent.

The other inmate suffered several broken bones in the face and neck, but survived.

A little more than a week later, Reed was accommodated with another inmate, which was referred to as RP and was found dead in his cell on May 8, 2024, according to the affidavit. An autopsy determined the cause of death of this inmate as a manual strangulation.

Reed's lawyers in the federal public defense lawyer refused to comment on the case.

Just a few hours after President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he signed a comprehensive order for the death penalty, which proves the US Attorney General “to take all the necessary and rightful measures” to ensure that states have enough deadly injection medication to carry out executions.

Trump's command forces the Ministry of Justice not only to apply for the death penalty in suitable national cases, but also to maintain the capital penalty in states that have tried to maintain adequate care with fatal injection medication.

Before the election of Trump, the federal government's statements had been stopped by the former Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021.

Only three defendants remained in the federal death cell after Democratic President Joe Biden 37 had converted into life in prison.