2020.07.15 21:41 GMT+8

First execution in 17 years at federal level conducted in U.S.

Updated 2020.07.15 21:41 GMT+8
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A former white supremacist has been put to death by lethal injection in the U.S. It was the first federal execution in the country for 17 years. And it came after President Donald Trump ordered a resumption of capital punishment at the federal level. The condemned criminal Daniel Lewis Lee and another man were convicted in Arkansas in 1999 of the murders of a family of three. The killings were in order to finance the founding of a white supremacist "Aryan Peoples Republic." Two more federal executions are scheduled for this week.

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