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.
