NEW YORK: The US government carried out its first execution in 17 years on Tuesday , putting to death convicted murderer Daniel Lee over objections by his victims' relatives after the Supreme Court cleared the way with an overnight ruling.
Lee's lawyers complained that the government had acted in haste and that they received no notification of his rescheduled execution after a remaining legal obstacle that had not been addressed by the Supreme Court was cleared shortly after dawn. "Last-minute stays like that issued this morning should be the extreme exception, not the norm," the Supreme Court wrote in its unsigned ruling.
A Justice Department official said that the Bureau of Prisons had notified Lee's counsel soon after the earlier Supreme Court ruling, but that there was no need to give further notification after the later ruling by the 8th Circuit. Lee spent four hours strapped to the gurney while the final legal challenges played out, his lawyers and a witness said. He was then asked if had any last words, according to a media witness in the viewing chamber.
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