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.
The killer was identified as Daniel Lewis Lee, a 47-year old white man who lives in Yukon, Oklahoma.
He was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Before his execution, The killer had denied all allegations made on me saying, “I didn’t do it, I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer. You’re killing an innocent man.”
Lewis Lee was pronounced dead at 8:07 a.m. EDT.
The decision to move forward with the execution was the first by the Bureau of Prisons since 2003 and it drew scrutiny from civil rights groups and the relatives of Lee’s victims, who had sued to try to halt it, citing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Critics argued that the government was creating an unnecessary and manufactured urgency for political gain.
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