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First Federal Execution In 17 Years For Convicted Murderer In Indiana

His name was Daniel Lewis Lee. in 1996 he killed a family in Arkansas. He tortured the family of three including an eight-year-old girl, before killing them and dumping their bodies in a lake. In the early hours of this morning the Supreme Court ruled this Federal prisoner could be executed.

And at 8.07am Eastern this morning, Lee - a white supremacist - was indeed executed. His last words were "You're killing an innocent man".

In the early hours of this morning in a 5-4 decision the SCOTUS cleared the way for a resumption of Federal executions for the first time in 17 years after an all night legal battle. Lee was executed by lethal injection at the Federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the first Federal inmate to be executed since 2003.

This case once again brings the death penalty into the spotlight.

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