Daniel Lewis Lee | |
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 Mugshot of Lee | |
| Born | January 31, 1973 Yukon, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | July 14, 2020 (aged 47) |
| Cause of death | Execution by lethal injection |
| Other names | Danny Lee Daniel Lewis Graham D L Graham |
| Motive | Creating a white ethnostate |
| Conviction(s) | Murder in aid of racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1959) (3 counts) Racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1962) Conspiracy to commit racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1962) Robbery Carrying a concealed weapon |
| Criminal penalty | Death (May 4, 1999) |
| Accomplice(s) | John David Patton (1 murder) Chevie Kehoe (3 murders) |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 |
| Date | July 24, 1990 (1) January 11, 1996 (3) |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Oklahoma and Arkansas |
Date apprehended | June 17, 1997 (for the final time) |
Daniel Lewis Lee (January 31, 1973 – July 14, 2020)[1] was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and convicted felon. In 1999, Lee was convicted as an accomplice to Chevie Kehoe in the 1996 murders of William Frederick Mueller, Nancy Ann Mueller, and their young daughter Sarah Elizabeth Powell, during a robbery at their Arkansas home. While Kehoe was found guilty of the triple murder in a separate trial and was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment without parole, Lee was sentenced to death. Lee had previously served prison time for assisting his cousin in the 1990 murder of Joey Wavra.
Upon conviction by the US federal government, Lee stayed on death row for 21 years before he was scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020, but on that date, a U.S. district judge blocked the execution, citing unresolved legal issues.[2] Thereafter, on July 14, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the execution could proceed. It was scheduled for 4:00 a.m. that same day.[3] After another short delay, he was executed at 8:07 a.m.[4] He was the first person executed by the US federal government since 2003.
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- ^ "U.S. Supreme Court allows federal executions to proceed". CNBC. July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
- ^ "Trump administration carries out first federal execution since 2003 after late-night Supreme Court intervention". Washington Post. July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.