Andrew McCarthy: Supreme Court constitutionally accurate in allowing exe...

Tuesday morning, the Justice Department carried out the execution by lethal injection of a White supremacist convicted of brutally murdering a husband, wifeand their 8-year-old daughter in 1996.  The death sentence of Daniel Lee Lewis was carried out at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.  It was the first execution of a federal capital sentence in 17 years. In the wee hours Tuesday morning,as NRs Brittany Bernstein reports, theU. S.  Supreme Courtvacated the injunctionagainst the Justice Departments execution of Lee, who had been on death row for over two decades.  The High Courts ruling permitted the DOJ to press ahead with a lethal injection that was originally scheduled to occur Monday afternoon.  The Courts 54 ruling also authorizes the DOJ to proceed with executions of three other defendants, scheduled to occur in the next few weeks. In acolumnyesterday, I recounted the grisly facts of Lees prosecution.  He was convicted of capital murder in aid of a racketeering enterprise  specifically, a White supremacist organization, for which he and an accomplice murdered a firearms dealer, along with the dealers wife and child, in robbing their home to steal guns and money.  After shooting them with stun guns and asphyxiating them, Lee and his partner weighted the corpses down with stones and tossed them into the bayou.  The bodies washed up in a lake six months later. DANIEL LEWIS LEE EXECUTED FOR TORTURING, KILLING ARKANSAS FAMILY IN 1996, FIRST FEDERAL EXECUTION IN 17 YEARSLast year, Attorney General Bill Barr announced plans to proceed with the executions of death-penalty convicts, some of whom have languished on death row for a quarter-century.  There are about five dozen prisoners in the federal system who have been sentenced to death for capital murder, but there have been only three federal executions since 1988, and none since 2003. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR OPINION NEWSLETTERAs noted in the column,





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