U.S. carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades after Supreme Court clears the way

The federal government on Tuesday 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.

The decision to move forward with the first execution by the Bureau of Prisons since 2003 -- and two others scheduled later in the week — drew scrutiny from civil rights groups and the relatives of Lee's victims, who had sued to try to halt it, citing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic hasCritics argued that the government was creating an unnecessary and manufactured urgency for political gain.

The execution of Lee, who died at 8:07 a.m. EDT, went off after a series of legal volleys that ended when the Supreme Court stepped in early Tuesday in a 5-4 ruling and allowed it to move forward.has said the Justice Department has a duty to carry out the sentences imposed by the courts, including the death penalty, and to bring a sense of closure to the victims and those in the communities where the killings happened.

Kehoe, of Colville, Washington, recruited Lee in 1995 to join his white supremacist orgaization, known as the Aryan Peoples' Republic. Two years later, they were arrested for the killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, in Tilly, Arkansas, about 75 miles northwest of Little Rock.

Lee's execution was then set to happen at 4 a.m. EDT, but a last-minute legal question was raised by his lawyers. The Justice Department said it filed a request with the court to straighten it out but went through with the execution. Lee was in the execution chamber with two men who the Bureau of Prisons would only identify as "senior BOP officials," a U.S. marshal and his spiritual adviser, whom a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson described as an "Appalachian pagan minister." They did not wear masks, and Lee also was not wearing a mask.

Eye for an eye? But yet the Bible says thou shall not kill. Wait. Is the Bible real? Because it seems it is used only when it benefits some people.

Nothing say Pro Life like a good old fashioned execution. Pass the popcorn Jethro.

Given the mental intellect running the country and Law enforcement in America generally. They are the last country that should be exercising the death penalty.

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