US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades
July 14, 2020 10:11AM CDT
Protesters against the death penalty gather in Terre Haute, Ind., Monday, July 13, 2020. Daniel Lewis Lee, a convicted killer, was scheduled to be executed at 4 p.m. in the federal prison in Terre Haute. He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) – The federal government has carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.
Forty-seven-year-old Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, died Tuesday at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Lee’s last words were: “You’re killing an innocent man.”
Lee is the first death row inmate to be executed since 2003. Lee’s execution came over the objection of the victims’ family and following a series of delays and legal challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Lee’s lawyer says it’s “beyond shameful” the government carried out the execution.
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