The U.S. has conducted its first Federal execution in 17 years after the Supreme Court rejects a last-minute legal challenge on a 5-4 vote.
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, a former white supremacist executed on Tuesday, 14 July 2020 after being convicted of the murder of a couple and their 8-year-old girl in Arkansas about two decades ago, during a robbery attack to finance a supremacist group.
According to a report by the US Department of Justice, Daniel Lewis Lee died at 08:07 a.m. local time (12:07 p.m. GMT) by lethal injection at Terre Haute prison in Indiana.
Lee’s execution is the first federal execution to be carried under the government of Donald Trump, seventeen years back since 2003.
The execution that was initially scheduled for Monday, 13 July 2020 was delayed by a judge of a Washington court, citing legal remedies but the Supreme Court overruled it and gave the green light to the federal authorities to carry out the execution because "the plaintiffs in this case have [had] not made the showing required to justify last-minute intervention by a Federal Court."
Two other federal executions are scheduled this week and another by the end of the month of August.
The European Union has called on Washington not to resume federal executions which it describes as degrading, inhuman and contrary to the right to life.
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