Daniel Lewis Lee’s death was a spectacle for the government’s benefit, zakcheneyrice writes
Federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Photo: TANNEN MAURY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstoc/TANNEN MAURY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstoc “We owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system,” William Barr said last July, announcing that his Justice Department would resume executing federal death-row prisoners for the first time since 2003.
Lee was sentenced to death in 1999. Three years earlier, he’d accompanied Chevie Kehoe — the founder of a white-supremacist anti-government militia called the Aryan People’s Republic — to the home of William Mueller, a firearms dealer, outside of Tilly, Arkansas.
These misgivings were echoed by several of the victims’ family members. Nancy Mueller’s sister, Kimma Gurel, and niece, Monica Veillette, both oppose capital punishment for Lee. “It made no sense,” Gurel said of the disparate sentences between Lee and Kehoe, according to the Times. Veillette has similarly advocated for his sentence to be commuted.
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