US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MICHAEL BALSAMO

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The federal government on Tuesday 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.

The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee came over the objection of the victims’ relatives and following days of legal wrangling and delays.

Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, professed his innocence just before he was executed at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

“I didn’t do it,” Lee said. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer.”



FILE - In this Oct. 31 1997, file photo, Daniel Lewis Lee waits for his arraignment hearing for murder in the Pope County Detention Center in Russellville, Ark. Relatives of the victims of Daniel Lewis Lee have pleaded for him to receive the same life sentence as the ringleader in the plot that led to the slayings. Now, family members say their grief is compounded by the push to execute Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.(Dan Pierce/The Courier via AP, File)


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[George II]

1. So to punish someone for his crime we commit the same crime. Barbaric. Even the families...

...of the victims didn't want him executed.

[Newest Reality]

2. Let that be a lesson!

A symbolic gesture for the regime.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Yea exactly the same crime ... no difference at all...

[Wabbajack_]

10. I read the family

Wanted it delayed SO THEY COULD GO WITNESS IT, didn't want to travel now with Covid.

[iscooterliberally]

4. The death penalty serves vengeance not justice.

We should start referring to the sitting members of the supreme court as 'vengeances' rather than 'justices'.

[al bupp]

11. As do most of our "Corrections" systems /nt

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. Oh well.....

One less vote for Trump.

[Polybius]

12. He wasn't gonna ever be voting anyway

n/t

[davsand]

6. I suppose that it's too much to expect that the government not kill during a pandemic.

Being in jail at all right now is akin to a death sentence anyway, but by all means, go ahead and kill this one off.

[Dios Mio]

7. I'm sure trump and barr feel much better now.

[NCjack]

8. The principal persons responsible for the deaths of children and their parents

on our southern border. Maybe they should fight for their lives in criminal trial for murder, to shore up white nationalism in USA.

[Scalded Nun]

9. Feeding the bloodlust of their base

[Polybius]

13. That's a neo-Nazi symbol on his neck

Bye!

[Major Nikon]

15. Safe to say the vast majority of those executed are horrible people

That doesn’t mean we should be executing them.

[mvd]

14. For the death President and his AG stooge, nothing stops more death

Not even a pandemic.

[argyl]

16. I'm against the death penalty.

But I wouldn't have been outside the prison walls holding a candle for him. Won't be shedding any tears for him either.

[Raine]

17. Same here.. nt