White supremacist Daniel Lewis Lee - who murdered family of three - is put to death by lethal injection in first federal execution in 17 years as he screams 'I didn't do it' just hours after Supreme Court's 5-4 vote
Daily Mail
July 14, 2020
The U.S. government on Tuesday carried out the first federal
execution in almost two decades, putting to death a man who killed an
Arkansas family in a 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only
nation in the Pacific Northwest.
Daniel Lewis Lee's execution by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana went off after a series of legal volleys that ended when the Supreme Court stepped in early Tuesday in a 5-4 ruling and allowed it to move forward. It came over the objection of the victims' family.
Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, screamed 'I didn't do it' before he was executed. 'I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I'm not a murderer. ... You´re killing an innocent man.'
The decision to move forward with the execution - and two others scheduled later in the week - during a global health pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 people in the United States and is ravaging prisons nationwide, drew scrutiny from civil rights groups as well as family of Lee's victims.
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Daniel Lewis Lee's execution by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana went off after a series of legal volleys that ended when the Supreme Court stepped in early Tuesday in a 5-4 ruling and allowed it to move forward. It came over the objection of the victims' family.
Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, screamed 'I didn't do it' before he was executed. 'I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I'm not a murderer. ... You´re killing an innocent man.'
The decision to move forward with the execution - and two others scheduled later in the week - during a global health pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 people in the United States and is ravaging prisons nationwide, drew scrutiny from civil rights groups as well as family of Lee's victims.
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INMATE COUNT CLEAR AT MINUS ONE
by Bob Walsh
Daniel
Lewis Lee, 47, was executed Tuesday for three murders committed in 1996 in
the furtherance of the creation of a white-only nation in a region of
the Pacific North-West. He murdered a gun dealer and his wife
and 8-year old child to get guns, ammo and cash.
This was the first
execution in the federal system in 17 years.
The
execution was held up for several hours because (among other reasons) the
family of the victims did not want to come to a prison during the
Covid-19 pandemic. SCOTUS said "too bad" and let the execution go
ahead.
Among
the official attendees was an "Appalacian Pagan" minister. None of the
participants in the execution were wearing masks, including the late and
unlamented Mr. Lee.
Two more federal executions are scheduled for later this week.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Great! Let the pentobarbital flow.
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