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Daniel Lewis Lee: US carries out first federal execution in 17 years

The US has carried out the first federal execution in 17 years following a 5-4 Supreme Court opinion issued late in the night after a contentious battle by the Trump administration to move forward with the execution.

Daniel Lewis Lee, a 47-year-old Oklahoma resident charged with killing a family in the 1990s, died in federal custody at a prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana by lethal injection on Tuesday morning.

It was the first of three federal executions scheduled this week, and faced strong condemnation from family members of Lee’s victims, with one relative saying in a statement: “For us it is a matter of being there and saying, `This is not being done in our name; we do not want this.”

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