Killer of Arkansas family first to be set for execution with U.S. resuming lethal injections

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The executions will take place at the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind., a maximum security prison that houses male inmates on federal death row. The U.S. government has 62 condemned inmates awaiting execution.

Out of that criteria, the Justice Department scheduled the death of 46-year-old Daniel Lewis Lee, who was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing Arkansas gun dealer Bill Mueller, his wife Nancy Mueller and their 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, at the family's home in the small town of Tilly, near Russellville.

Lee and an accomplice, Chevie Kehoe, were white supremacists on a cross-country rampage when they killed the family. The duo planned to use money and guns stolen from the Muellers to establish a whites-only colony in the Pacific Northwest.

Lee attempted to have his death sentence vacated in 2006, arguing that a hair sample tied to him at trial was later shown through DNA not to be his. Defense attorneys also argued that prosecutors misrepresented Lee's role in an earlier slaying -- for which he was charged only with robbery -- and cast him as a dangerous "psychopath" who would be a threat to others, even in prison.

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Kehoe, who killed the child, received life in prison.

[lunasun]

1. "Threat to others, even in prison" . Hope he has been kept away in solitary . Since then it's a

cell with only a white person in it he should be ok awaiting death confined in segregation and others in the prison are safe from a dangerous psychopath