Tag: Daniel Lewis Lee

U.S. carries out first federal execution in 17 years

Jul 14, 2020

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by

Olaotan Falade

in Nigeria, World

The U.S. government on Tuesday carried out the first federal execution in almost two decades, putting to death Daniel Lewis Lee, by lethal injection. Lee, a white supremacist, was involved in the killing of an Arkansas family as part of the 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. He murdered an…