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~ Daniel Lee, 14Jul20, (FedAR) ~
By: BuzzC Date: July 28, 2019, 6:33 am
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Execution scheduled for man convicted of killing Arkansas
family--
Thursday, July 25, 2019
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United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute
The execution date has been set for a man accused of killing an
Arkansas family.
According to the Department of Justice, Daniel Lewis Lee is a
member of a white supremacist group and killed a family of
three, including an 8-year-old girl.
"After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, Lee
covered their heads with plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct
tape, weighed down each victim with rocks, and threw the family
of three into the Illinois bayou," according to the DOJ.
“On May 4, 1999, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Arkansas found Lee guilty of numerous
offenses, including three counts of murder in aid of
racketeering and he was sentenced to death. Lee’s execution is
scheduled to occur on Dec. 9, 2019.”
Lee is currently being held inside the United State Penitentiary
in Terre Haute, according to federal records.
This scheduled execution comes as the federal government
announced it will resume capital punishment.
After nearly two decades without utilizing capital punishment,
Attorney General William Barr is not only resuming the practice
but has already scheduled five executions of death-row inmates
who were convicted of murdering children.
The Department of Justice reported the switch back on Thursday
saying, "The attorney general has further directed the Acting
Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Hugh Hurwitz, to
schedule the executions of five death-row inmates convicted of
murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most
vulnerable in our society—children and the elderly.”
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Re: ~ Daniel Lee, (FedAR) ~
By: BuzzC Date: July 10, 2020, 5:57 pm
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Re: ~ Daniel Lee, 14Jul20, (FedAR) ~
By: BuzzC Date: July 13, 2020, 7:46 am
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Execution of Daniel Lee can proceed, federal appeals court
rules--
The appeals court found that the claim from the victims’ family
'lacks any arguable legal basis and is therefore frivolous'
Monday, July 13, 2020
A federal appeals court on Sunday ruled that the first federal
execution in nearly two decades can proceed as scheduled on
Monday, overturning a lower court order that had delayed the
execution over concerns of the coronavirus.
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, had been scheduled to die by lethal
injection on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana for the 1996
killings of a gun dealer, the dealer’s wife and their 8-year-old
daughter in Arkansas.
Chief District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled Friday in Indiana
that the execution would be delayed because of concerns from the
victims’ family about the coronavirus pandemic.
The Justice Department (DOJ) argued that the judge’s order
misconstrued the law and asked the appeals court to immediately
overturn the ruling.
The appeals court found that the claim from the victims’ family
“lacks any arguable legal basis and is therefore frivolous."
The Justice Department also argued that while the Bureau of
Prisons (BOP) has taken measures to accommodate the family and
implemented additional safety protocols because of the pandemic,
the family’s concerns “do not outweigh the public interest in
finally carrying out the lawfully imposed sentence in this
case.”
The appeal came after a BOP staff member involved in preparing
for the execution tested positive for the coronavirus. However,
the Justice Department said the development would not mean an
additional delay in the government’s timetable because the
worker had not been in the execution chamber and had not come
into contact with anyone on the specialized team sent to the
prison to handle the execution.
The relatives would be traveling thousands of miles and
witnessing the execution in a small room where the social
distancing recommended to prevent the virus’ spread is virtually
impossible. There are currently four confirmed coronavirus cases
among inmates at the Terre Haute prison, according to federal
statistics, and one inmate there has died.
The victims’ family had argued they weren’t trying to overturn
Lee’s death sentence but instead they “seek to exercise their
lawful rights to attend the execution of Lee, so that they can
be together at that moment in time as they grieve their losses,”
according to the filing.
The family says they will appeal to the Supreme Court because
the government is supposedly forcing them to compromise their
safety by scheduling Lee’s execution in the midst of the
pandemic.
Still, the family hopes there won’t ever be an execution. They
have asked the Justice Department and President Trump not to
move forward with the execution and have long asked that Lee be
given a life sentence instead.
The relatives, including Earlene Branch Peterson, who lost her
daughter and granddaughter in the killing, have argued that
their grief is compounded by the push to execute Lee in the
middle of a pandemic. Peterson, who is 81 and has not left the
county where she lives since February, was told by her doctor
she should not travel and should avoid contact with others as
much as possible to during the pandemic, the filing said.
“Plaintiffs face the unacceptable choice between exercising
their right to witness the execution and risking exposure to a
deadly disease,” the family’s lawyers wrote in an appeals court
filing on Saturday.
Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press in
recent days that he believes the Bureau of Prisons could “carry
out these executions without being at risk.” The agency has put
a number of additional measures in place, including temperature
checks and requiring witnesses to wear masks.
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Re: ~ Daniel Lee, 14Jul20, (FedAR) ~
By: BuzzC Date: July 14, 2020, 4:39 pm
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Daniel Lewis Lee executed for torturing, killing Arkansas family
in 1996, first federal execution in 17 years--
Lee, 47, was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital at
8:07 a.m.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
A self-proclaimed White supremacist who tortured and killed an
Arkansas family – including an 8-year-old girl – was executed
Tuesday morning in Indiana.
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, was injected with a lethal dose of
pentobarbital at 8:07 a.m., just hours after the Supreme Court
green-lit the first federal execution to take place since 2003.
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He was wheeled into the execution chamber at the federal
penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., strapped to a gurney, with
more than half his body covered in a light blue blanket.
IV tubes were coming through a metal panel in the walls and Lee
breathed heavily before the drug was injected into his body,
moving his legs and feet. He mumbled to himself briefly as his
chest continued to rise and fall. At one point as the drug was
being administered, he raised his head to look around. With his
head cocked slightly to the left, his breathing appeared to
become labored. In a few moments, Lee’s chest was no longer
moving, his lips turned blue and his fingers became ashy.
Lee was convicted of multiple offenses, including three counts
of murder in aid of racketeering in the 1996 slayings of William
Frederick Mueller, his wife Nancy Ann Mueller and his 8-year-old
stepdaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Powell, in Arkansas.
Mueller was a local gun dealer and the bodies of him and his
family were discovered five months after they went missing. They
had been shot to death and had plastic bags covering their
heads, sealed with duct tape. Their bodies were weighed down by
rocks and dumped in the Illinois bayou.
"I didn't do it," Lee said on Tuesday, looking directly into the
window of the media witness room before he was executed. "I've
made a lot of mistakes in my life but I'm not a murderer."
His last words: "You're killing an innocent man."
Back-and-forth legal proceedings stalled the execution several
times.
Hours before he was slated to die, the Supreme Court in a 5-4
vote overruled a lower court's order to delay four executions
scheduled for July and August.
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. district court in Washington had
issued the preliminary injunction against the executions citing
issues with the lethal injection methods used by the government,
but the Supreme Court disagreed.
“The government has produced competing expert testimony of its
own, indicating that any pulmonary edema occurs only after the
prisoner has died or been rendered fully insensate,” the Supreme
Court said in their ruling.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit also
overturned an injunction put in place last week by a district
court after the family of the victims said the coronavirus would
pose a health risk to them and prevent them from exercising
their right to attend the execution at the prison, where several
people have been infected with COVID-19.
Attorneys for Lee and members of the victim's family have long
fought for Lee to get a life sentence and not be put to death,
to no avail.
Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press in
recent days that he believes the Bureau of Prisons could “carry
out these executions without being at risk.”
The agency has put a number of additional measures in place,
including temperature checks and requiring witnesses to wear
masks.
The execution is the first after the Trump administration
announced last year it would be making a return back to capital
punishment methods.
Two more executions are scheduled this week, Wesley Ira Purkey's
on Wednesday, and Dustin Lee Honken's on Friday.
A fourth man, Keith Dwayne Nelson, is scheduled to be executed
in August.
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