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Daniel Lewis Lee, white male, executed on July 14, 2020. Daniel Lewis Lee
and co-defendant Chevie Kehoe were convicted in 1999 of killing Nancy
Mueller, her husband William Mueller, and her 8-year-old daughter Sarah
Powell. Lee sought executive clemency with the support of Mueller’s family, the prosecutor, and the judge who tried him in an Arkansas federal court.
They all believed that executing Lee would be a miscarriage of justice given the life sentence imposed on his much more culpable co-defendant. Judge G. Thomas Eisele described Kehoe as the “ringleader,” and trial testimony showed that Kehoe killed Sarah Powell after Lee refused, saying he would not kill a child. (Mark Berman, Trump administration carries out first federal execution since 2003 after late-night Supreme Court intervention, The Washington Post, July 14, 2020.)

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