OPINION_ Andrew McCarthy: Supreme Court constitutionally accurate in allowing execution of triple-murderer to proceed

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Andrew McCarthy: Supreme Court constitutionally accurate in allowing execution of triple-murderer to proceed

It was the first execution of a federal capital sentence in 17 years.

OPINION - By Andrew McCarthy | National Review

 
Andrew McCarthy: Supreme Court constitutionally accurate in allowing execution of triple-murderer to proceed 
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Tuesday morning, the Justice Department carried out the execution by lethal injection of a White supremacist convicted of brutally murdering a husband, wife and 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 NR’s Brittany Bernstein reports, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the injunction against the Justice Department’s execution of Lee, who had been on death row for over two decades. The High Court’s ruling permitted the DOJ to press ahead with a lethal injection that was originally scheduled to occur Monday afternoon. The Court’s 5–4 ruling also authorizes the DOJ to proceed with executions of three other defendants, scheduled to occur in the next few weeks.

In a column yesterday, I recounted the grisly facts of Lee’s 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 dealer’s 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.

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