White supremacist Daniel Lewis Lee was convicted two decades ago for the murder of a family in Arkansas
"The Government has been trying to plow forward with these executions despite many unanswered questions about the legality of its new execution protocol," said Shawn Nolan, one of the attorneys for the men facing federal execution.Executions on the federal level in the US have been rare, and the Government has put to death only three defendants since restoring the federal death penalty in 1988 — most recently in 2003.
Relatives of those killed by Lee in 1996 strongly opposed the idea put forward by Mr Barr that executions would bring closure to the families of victims and long argued that Lee deserved a sentence of life in prison. They noted that Lee's co-defendant and the reputed ringleader, Chevie Kehoe, received a life sentence.
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 the town of Tilly, Arkansas.
Appalling disregard to the sum of us. We cannot devalue human life, we must work on restoring it. This is throwing it away.
Trumps attempt to shore up his base in an election year. We’ve officially reached peak barbarism.
good move
Wait. The ABC keeps telling us Trump is a Nazi yet he's executing white supremacists? Buy muh narrative!
savages !!!
This actually surprises me... firstly I thought US government had been killing people this entire time & secondly that the 'first' person they kill in 17 years is white? Who woulda thunk it?
For perspective
'putting to death a man who was convicted of killing a family in the 1990s as part of a plot to build a whites-only nation'
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Serial killers Paedophiles should be top of the list.