For the first time in 17 years, the United States federal government has carried out an execution, killing an Oklahoma man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in the 1990s.
For the first time in 17 years, the United States federal government has carried out an execution, killing an Oklahoma man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in the 1990s. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, allowed the execution to move forward.
The Associated Press reported that 47-year-old Daniel Lee Lewis, who had a plan back then to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest, was killed by lethal injection Tuesday morning. He was convicted of murdering gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her eight-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, in 1996.
“I didn’t do it,” AP reported Lee as saying. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer.”
Ruth Friedman, one of Lee’s lawyers, said it was “shameful that the government saw fit to carry out this execution during a pandemic.
