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August 27, 2020

Only Native American on Federal Death Row Executed Over Objections of Navajo Nation
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In Indiana, the only Native American on federal death row was declared
dead at 6:29 p.m. in the federal prison in Terre Haute Wednesday, after
prison officials injected him with a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
Lezmond Mitchell's execution came over the objections of the Navajo
Nation, which opposes capital punishment. Death penalty abolitionist
Sister Helen Prejean tweeted, "Mitchell's case was tainted from the very
beginning with government misconduct and racism. This execution had
nothing to do with justice." It was the fourth federal execution carried
out this year, after the Trump administration ended a 16-year moratorium
on the death penalty.


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