The decision comes hours before Daniel Lewis Lee was set to die by lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
in 17 years, along with two other executions scheduled this week, concluding that condemned inmates had not exhausted their challenges to the government's execution protocols.
Lawyers for Earlene Peterson, 81, and other family members not only cited the health risks involving their planned travel to Indiana but claimed that federal prison officials could not provide adequate assurances once they arrived at the prison complex.
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