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US to resume federal executions after 17-year hiatus | USA News

The United States federal government is set to carry out the first federal execution in 17 years on Monday, despite the objection of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings over the coronavirus pandemic.

Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 4pm (20:00 GMT) on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana. He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.

The execution, the first of a federal death row inmate since 2003, comes after a federal appeals court lifted an injunction on Sunday that had been put in place last week after the victims’ family argued they would be put at high risk for the coronavirus if they had to travel to attend the execution. The family had vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.

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The decision to move forward with the execution – and two others scheduled later in the week – during a global health pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 people in the US and is ravaging prisons nationwide, drew scrutiny from civil rights groups and the family of Lee’s victims.

The decision has been criticised as a dangerous and political move. Critics argue that the government is creating an unnecessary and manufactured urgency around a topic that is not high on the list of American concerns right now. It is also likely to add a new front to the national conversation about criminal justice reform in the lead-up to the 2020 elections.

In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had a duty to carry out the sentences imposed by the courts, including the death penalty, and to bring a sense of closure to the victims and those in the communities where the killings happened.

But relatives of those killed by Lee strongly oppose that idea. They wanted to be present to counter any contention that it was being done on their behalf.

“For us it is a matter of being there and saying, ‘This is not being done in our name; we do not want this,'” said relative Monica Veillette.

The relatives would be travelling thousands of miles and witnessing the execution in a small room where the social distancing recommended to prevent the virus’s spread is virtually impossible. The federal prison system has struggled in recent months to contain the exploding number of coronavirus cases behind bars. There are currently four confirmed coronavirus cases among inmates at the Terre Haute prison, according to federal statistics, and one inmate there has died.

“The federal government has put this family in the untenable position of choosing between their right to witness Danny Lee’s execution and their own health and safety,” the family’s attorney, Baker Kurrus, said on Sunday.

Barr said he believes the Bureau of Prisons could “carry out these executions without being at risk”. The agency has put a number of additional measures in place, including temperature checks and requiring witnesses to wear masks.

On Sunday, the Justice Department disclosed that a staff member involved in preparing for the execution had tested positive for the coronavirus, but said he had not been in the execution chamber and had not come into contact with anyone on the specialised team sent to the prison to handle the execution.

The victim’s family hopes there won’t be an execution, ever. They have asked the Justice Department and President Donald Trump not to move forward with the execution and have long asked that Lee be given a life sentence instead.

The last person executed by the federal government was Louis Jones Jr, a US Army soldier put to death in 2003 after he was convicted of the rape and murder of another soldier. He was one of three individuals executed during George W Bush’s presidency; before Bush no federal inmates had been put to death since 1963.

But before the pandemic, the economy and healthcare were Americans’ top priorities for the government to work on in 2020, with 59 percent and 50 percent naming the two, respectively, in an open-ended question in an Associated Press-NORC poll from December. Some 35 percent said immigration was one of the most important issues the government should work on in 2020, and about as many referenced politics or partisan gridlock.

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— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) July 7, 2020

The percentage of Americans in favour of the death penalty stood at 60 percent in the 2018 General Social Survey, a long-running trends survey. That is about where it was in the 1970s. Support has steadily ticked back down after peaking at 75 percent in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Most Democrats oppose it. By contrast, President Donald Trump has spoken often about capital punishment and his belief that executions serve as an effective deterrent and an appropriate punishment for some crimes, including mass shootings and the killings of police officers.

“This appears to be a distraction,” said Samuel Spital, the litigation director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. There are several things that should be at the top of the agenda for the Justice Department right now, he said, including the coronavirus. Another “should be an effort to address the widespread problem of police violence against Black and brown communities in this country which has finally captured the public’s attention”, he said.

A gurney at a jail in Huntsville, Texas where executions take place. [File: Pat Sullivan/AP Photo]

The majority of people on death row are Black and Hispanic, and the number of cases authorised by the attorney general seeking death since the late 1980s are mostly non-white people.

But the three men chosen to die this week are all white:

Danny Lee, who was convicted in Arkansas of killing a family of three, including an 8-year-old. Family members of Lee’s victims have asked a federal judge to delay his execution, saying the coronavirus puts them at risk if they travel to attend the execution. They have asked that the execution be put off until a treatment or a vaccine is available for the virus.

Wesley Ira Purkey, of Kansas, who raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl and killed an 80-year-old woman.

Dustin Lee Honken, who killed five people in Iowa, including two children.

Inside Story Americas – The law of executions (25:03)

The Justice Department had scheduled five executions set to begin in December, but some of the inmates challenged the new procedures in court, arguing that the government was circumventing proper methods in order to wrongly execute inmates quickly.

Executions on the federal level have been rare and the government has put to death only three defendants since restoring the federal death penalty in 1988 — most recently in 2003, when Jones was executed. Though there has not been a federal execution since then, the Justice Department has continued to approve death penalty prosecutions and federal courts have sentenced defendants to death.

In 2014, following a botched state execution in Oklahoma, President Barack Obama directed the Justice Department to conduct a broad review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs.

The attorney general said last July that the Obama-era review had been completed, clearing the way for executions to resume. He approved a new procedure for lethal injections that replaces the three-drug combination previously used in federal executions with one drug, pentobarbital. This is similar to the procedure used in several states, including Georgia, Missouri and Texas, but not all.

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RT @lawcrimenews: Woman Attacks Boyfriend for ‘Looking at Other Women,’ Stuns Fellow Passengers. WATCH: https://t.co/vQkSrqpBvc https://t.co/anbEt4JOuE

Woman Attacks Boyfriend for ‘Looking at Other Women,’ Stuns Fellow Passengers. WATCH: https://t.co/vQkSrqpBvc pic.twitter.com/anbEt4JOuE

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Darian Balcom has filed a civil rights lawsuit naming Pittsburgh police Officer Gabe Figueroa as the person she says arrested her for not being a supporter of President Donald Trump.

Pittsburgh Woman Darian Balcom Claims Officer Asked if She Supported Trump, Arrested Her for ‘Sassing’ Cops https://t.co/4YYfESxcZM pic.twitter.com/dipp8iQp1H

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Former Federal Prosecutor: Trump’s ‘Lashing Out’ at Matthew Whitaker May Have Been Obstruction https://t.co/0pJSm8pofj pic.twitter.com/jE4vMqHFka

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SMILING SUSPECT: Woman accused of attacking beau with sword grins for mugshot

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A Nebraska woman flashed her pearly whites for the camera after being arrested for an alleged assault on her boyfriend that involved a sword.

Members of the Lincoln Police Department responded to a call early Thursday morning from 26-year-old Ivy Moore, who reportedly told them her boyfriend wouldn’t leave the apartment they shared.

According to news outlet KLIN, upon arrival cops found the woman’s boyfriend with a blood-covered shirt and a cut on his thumb.

Nebraska woman Ivy Moore was all smiles for the camera after allegedly swinging a sword at her boyfriend: https://t.co/ZxT5q07RJm pic.twitter.com/GI3UoHWogk

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Moore’s beau reportedly told cops an argument over an old relationship got heated and that Moore asked him to leave. The man claimed he was in the midst of gathering his belongings when the woman allegedly swung at him with a sword.

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The boyfriend’s thumb was cut by the sword blade when he held his hands up to block the weapon.

Cops say Moore was intoxicated at the time of her arrest. They also found a pipe in the apartment.

Moore was booked on second-degree domestic assault and weapons charges. The boyfriend did not seek medical attention.

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A Nebraska woman flashed her pearly whites for the camera after being arrested for an alleged assault on her boyfriend that involved a sword.

Members of the Lincoln Police Department responded to a call early Thursday morning from 26-year-old Ivy Moore, who reportedly told them her boyfriend wouldn’t leave the apartment they shared.

According to news outlet KLIN, upon arrival cops found the woman’s boyfriend with a blood-covered shirt and a cut on his thumb.

Nebraska woman Ivy Moore was all smiles for the camera after allegedly swinging a sword at her boyfriend: https://t.co/ZxT5q07RJm pic.twitter.com/GI3UoHWogk

— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) August 16, 2018

Moore’s beau reportedly told cops an argument over an old relationship got heated and that Moore asked him to leave. The man claimed he was in the midst of gathering his belongings when the woman allegedly swung at him with a sword.

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The boyfriend’s thumb was cut by the sword blade when he held his hands up to block the weapon.

Cops say Moore was intoxicated at the time of her arrest. They also found a pipe in the apartment.

Moore was booked on second-degree domestic assault and weapons charges. The boyfriend did not seek medical attention.

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Exclusive: Desperate Media Continues Fantasy Witch Hunt Of Roger Stone

Friday, a former aide of Roger Jason Stone Jr.'s was held in "contempt of court" for ignoring a subpoena from the Robert Swan Mueller, Jr's. Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 President Election of Donald John Trump, Sr. “We asked him to be held in contempt in order for us to appeal the judge’s decision to the court of appeals,” said Miller's lawyer Paul Kamenar. WHY HE IGNORED IT Kamenar argued that Mueller is a "principal officer".  And he said according to the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, that means the president of the United States “shall nominate” him “by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.” "Mueller was not nominated by the president by and with the advice and consent of Congress, therefore it is unconstitutional", Kamenar said. https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews/status/1027954912800452608 “Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.” "Inferior officers are the lower-level officials under the supervision of the principal officers.," according to the Appointments Clause. adlaw-2018s-The-Appointments-Clause  THE POINT- SO WHO IS SUPERVISING MUELLER? OR IS HE A NEW BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT INVENTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT? "The judge said Mueller is an inferior officer, therefore his appointment by a “Head of Department” (yes, in this case the acting head of the Department of Justice, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein) is constitutionally valid," according to Law and Crime. (Definition of Principal Officer is being appointed by President and confirmed.  He was not, so he is not.) THE SIDESHOW CARNIES SPEAK: https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1028073098329907200 https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1027968972761821184 https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1028057183173267456 Populist Media reached out to Roger Stone to ask for a statement on the newest development in the public media circus trail. Stone told Populist Media: "Andrew Miller has no knowledge or evidence of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration or any other illegal activity on my part. I am confident that if and when he does testify, pending appeal, he will do so truthfully and honestly. I stress no evidence exists that I in anyway collaborated or coordinated my activities or pronouncements with WikiLeaks or anyone else and that my now public ex-post facto exchange with Guccifer 2.0 is benign and most certainly does not constitute evidence of collusion or collaboration. No evidence exists because the events endlessly recycled by irresponsible fake news outlets like MSNBC simply never happened!! The mainstream media has merely recycled the same threadbare claims regarding wiki leaks and goes for Guccifer 2.0 that I addressed fairly and honestly before the house intelligence committee. This is indeed a Witch Hunt !"   Populist Media other coverage of Stone HERE Read the full article

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Dinesh D’Souza Under Fire After Retweeting Posts With #BurnTheJews and #BringBackSlavery Hashtags https://t.co/Ww6yUOPh3H pic.twitter.com/QEm15yzFcf

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A Florida teacher will not face charges after a video drowning raccoons and an opossum while teaching a high school agriculture class, but he has resigned. Be warned, the video is graphic: https://t.co/KuhiiyAGRD pic.twitter.com/EyeRFIY0EO

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