On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court paved the way for the second federal execution this week, allowing a man convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl to die by lethal injection. Wesley Ira Purkey, 68, was executed at 8:19 a.m. at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, …
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Indiana state police officers block a path leading to the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, as officials await news of the suspension of execution issued by Daniel Lewis Lee, who is convicted of the murder of three members of an Arkansas family in 1996, and would be the first federal …
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Indiana state police officers block a path leading to the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, as officials await news of the suspension of execution issued by Daniel Lewis Lee, who is convicted of the murder of three members of an Arkansas family in 1996, and would be the first federal …
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