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Monday 13 July 2020

First federal execution in US since 2003 set to proceed on Monday

Daniel Lewis Lee due to die by lethal injection despite objections from victims’ families

The US government is planning to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades, despite the objections of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings surrounding risks caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 4pm on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana. He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of William Mueller, a gun dealer, his wife, Nancy, and her eight-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.

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