TERRE HAUTE, Ind. —
The U.S. has carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades, putting to death a man who was convicted of killing an Arkansas family in the 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.
Forty-seven-year-old Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, died Tuesday after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Lee is the first death row inmate to be executed since 2003.
Lee's last words were: “You’re killing an innocent man.”
Lee's execution came over the objection of the victims’ family and following a series of legal challenges related to the raging coronavirus pandemic.
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