Daniel Lee is set to be executed tomorrow in Indiana for the brutal 1996 murder of a family of three. Barring further developments, this will be the first federal execution in 17 years
The federal government appears to be back on track to conduct its first execution in more than 17 years on Monday after a federal appeals court overturned a lower-court order blocking the event because family members of the victims did not want to travel amid the coronavirus pandemic.Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously lifted the lower-court injunction Sunday.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals largely rejected those arguments in April, and the Supreme Court issued an order late last month declining to take up the challenge. Two justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, indicated they would have heard the case.lifting the most recent stay of Lee’s execution, Judge Diane Sykes flatly rejected Indianapolis-based U.S.
Sykes also said that while federal law does require that federal executions be conducted in the same “manner” as executions in the state where the inmate was convicted, that doesn’t require federal authorities to replicate “every aspect” of the state execution procedures.
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