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Thread: Daniel Lewis Lee - Federal Execution - July 14, 2020

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    Lee's execution is scheduled for December 9.

    https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/....google.com%2F
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    This is a video of Lee's codefendant Chevie Kehoe in a shootout with police.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jec0XwvM4_8
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    Lee seems to be a smart choice for the first federal execution in 16 years. It was particularly heinous since there were three victims including a child. Plus, all appeals will go through the Eighth Circuit, which currently has ten GOP-appointed judges and only one Democrat-appointed judge.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...Eighth_Circuit

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    Does anyone have a birth date for Lee? I’ve narrowed it down to c. December 1972 by now but I still can’t find a specific date.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    I admire your commitment to this issue Ted. Your best bet would probably be to contact the Bureau of Prisons directly, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind providing such basic info.

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    Thanks Nandu, I’m still waiting on an email I sent them last Friday so I wondered if you guys might have any info. I might phone in if they don’t reply by next week.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Call the Pope county court, I think he was in custody there for a little while so there should be an arrest record on him there too.

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    White supremacist on death row who killed three of family seeks relief, says 'junk science' gave him 'psychopath' tag

    Daniel Lee along with Chevie Kehoe, who wanted a whites-only country, killed the family and dumped them in Illinois Bayou in 1999

    By Priyam Chhetri
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    A man who murdered an entire Arkansas family in 1999 and is currently on death row has now filed for relief from the sentence. Daniel Lewis Lee, 46, from Oklahoma, had been convicted of slaying a Pope County family, which included an eight-year-old girl, along with Chevie Kehoe. The two were said to be white supremacists who had wanted to steal guns and money from the family, with ambitions to start a whites-only country in the Pacific Northwest.

    The two were convicted of a number of charges, including the murders of Bill Mueller, 53; Nancy Mueller, 28; and Sarah Powell, 8. Prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice had said that Lee along with Kehoe had first shot the three with a stun gun, covered their heads with plastic bags, and sealed them with duct tape. He then threw the weighted bodies into the Illinois Bayou. While Lee was given the death penalty, Kehoe was given a life sentence. Prosecutors believed that Kehoe had been the leader of the group and Lee was not the ring leader. A psychological evaluation said Lee was a psychopath and a danger to others.

    His lawyer Morris Moon said in a statement to MEAWW that Lee's sentence was unconstitutional. The attorneys filed a habeas petition on September 26 and asked the court in Indiana – which does have the power to consider these claims – to overturn Lee’s unconstitutional death sentence and prevent him from being executed on December 9, Moon said. Moon said the "dangerous psychopath" tag was a result of "junk science."

    “The government obtained a death sentence against Danny Lee using junk science. It promoted the fiction that Mr. Lee was a ‘dangerous psychopath’ based on a forensic instrument that even the government’s own trial expert now admits lacks any scientific validity," he said in a statement. He further added that the jury had also been misled.

    “That junk science was not the only false evidence the government used to secure a death sentence. It also misled the jury into believing that Mr. Lee had committed a prior murder as a juvenile," he said. "The government’s presentation about Mr. Lee’s ‘history of violence’ was not only highly inflammatory, it was also categorically false. Court records demonstrate that a state judge had actually dismissed the inflated murder charge against Mr. Lee after looking at the evidence," he said.

    Pointing out the fact that Kehoe was slapped with a life sentence without parole, he said that it was also "important to remember that Mr. Lee’s more-culpable co-defendant, Chevie Kehoe, does not face execution."

    Lee's execution is back on after Attorney General William Barr's July announcement to resume the federal death penalty. Murderers Lezmond Mitchell, Wesley Ira Purkey, Alfred Bourgeois and Dustin Lee Honken are others currently scheduled to be executed.

    https://meaww.com/white-supremacist-...ily-8-year-old
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    Judge halts all scheduled federal executions

    By JOSH GERSTEIN
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    A judge has blocked the scheduled executions of four federal death row inmates, effectively freezing the Trump administration’s effort to resume imposing the death penalty in a federal system that saw its last execution more than a decade and a half ago.

    The order issued Wednesday night by U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan halts four executions that U.S. officials planned to carry out starting next month.

    The only other execution that officials had put on the calendar, also for December, was blocked last month by the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

    In July, Attorney General William Barr announced plans to resume executions at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. He suggested the practice had been allowed to languish for too long and said it would deliver justice in cases involving what he called the “worst criminals.”

    Barr announced a new federal death penalty protocol that would use a single drug, pentobarbital, in lieu of a three-drug “cocktail” employed in the most recent federal executions.

    In the wake of Barr’s announcement, a series of death row prisoners joined a long-dormant legal challenge to that previous method and asked Chutkan to block their execution under the new protocol until their legal challenges to it were full adjudicated.

    In her ruling Wednesday, Chutkan said the death row inmates appeared likely to prevail on their arguments that the new protocol violates longstanding federal law because the procedures to be used vary from state law. A 1994 federal statute says federal executions shall be carried out “in the manner prescribed by the law of the State in which the sentence is imposed.”

    Justice Department attorneys argued that the use of lethal injection was sufficiently similar regardless of the drugs used or other details of the execution protocol, but Chutkan ruled that the law likely requires federal authorities to adopt the same drugs or drugs and a similar process.

    “Requiring the federal government to follow more than just the state’s method of execution is consistent with other sections of the statute and with historical practices. For all these reasons, this court finds that the FDPA [Federal Death Penalty Act] does not authorize the creation of a single implementation procedure for federal executions,” wrote the judge, an appointee of President Barack Obama.

    “There is no statute that gives the [Bureau of Prisons] or DOJ the authority to establish a single implementation procedure for all federal executions,” Chutkan added.

    In granting the injunction, Chutkan noted the obvious fact that permitting the executions would deprive the inmates of their ability to pursue their legal challenges. She also turned aside the Justice Department’s claim that time was of the essence, noting that revisions to the federal death penalty protocol languished for years after shortages developed of at least one drug used in the earlier cocktail.

    The earliest of the five executions that federal officials planned to carry out in the coming weeks was scheduled for Dec. 9.

    “While the government does have a legitimate interest in the finality of criminal proceedings, the eight years that it waited to establish a new protocol undermines its arguments regarding the urgency and weight of that interest,” the judge wrote.

    Justice Department spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the judge’s ruling.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...cutions-072384

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    This is bull and will be overturned on appeal

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