Daniel Lewis. (AP image)
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana: The federal government on Tuesday performed its very first execution in almost 20 years, killing by lethal injection a guy founded guilty of murdering an Arkansas household in a 1990 s plot to develop 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 hold-ups.
Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, professed his innocence just before he was executed at the federal jail in Terre Haute, Indiana.
” I didn’t do it,” Lee said. “I’ve made a lot of errors in my life, however I’m not a killer.”
His last words were: “You’re killing an innocent guy.”
The choice to progress with the first execution by the Bureau of Prisons since 2003 – and 2 others scheduled later on in the week – drew analysis from civil liberties groups and the loved ones of Lee’s victims, who had sued to try to stop it, mentioning concerns about the