BREAKING: U.S. carries out first federal execution in 17 years in Indiana after U.S. Supreme Court ruling clears the way.
Hours later, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned majority opinion saying that"the plaintiffs have not established that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their Eighth Amendment claim" and"that claim faces an exceedingly high bar."
Daniel Lewis Lee waits for his arraignment hearing for murder in the Pope County Detention Center in Russellville, Ark. on Oct. 31 1997.His execution, the first by the federal Bureau of Prisons since 2003, was initially halted Friday over concerns about, which were raised by civil rights groups and relatives of Lee’s victims who had sued to try to stop it.
“For us it is a matter of being there and saying, `This is not being done in our name; we do not want this,’” relative Monica Veillette said.
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