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July 13, 2020

First Federal Execution in 17 Years Set for Today in Indiana
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In Indiana, prison officials are set to carry out the first federal
execution in nearly two decades today. A federal judge had suspended the
lethal injection on Friday, after the victims' family members said they
were afraid to travel during the coronavirus pandemic to bear witness to
the execution. But a federal appeals court panel ruled the victims'
family doesn't have to attend. Forty-seven-year-old Daniel Lewis Lee was
sentenced to death decades ago for his role in a 1996 triple murder.
Since then, several family members of the three victims have called for
Lee's sentence to be commuted to life in prison. 


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