COVID-19 Fears Stall Execution of White Supremacist Who Helped Murder White Family to Fund 'Aryan' N
COVID-19 Fears Stall Execution of White Supremacist Who Helped Murder White Family to Fund ‘Aryan’ Nation
ALBERTO LUPERON
Jul 10th, 2020, 7:23 pm
Daniel Lewis Lee isn’t a dead man yet, and he won’t be for at least some time. A federal judge in Indiana, where the inmate remains in prison for a 1996 triple murder, ruled Friday that the execution scheduled for Monday will be postponed. Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson granted a motion from three of the victims’ family members, who had been chosen by the warden to see the convicted killer put to death.
These relatives–Earlene Branch Peterson, Kimma Gurel, and Monica Veillette–voiced concern that the execution was set to occur during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To be sure, Peterson–the mother and grandmother respectively of victims Nancy Mueller, 28, and Sarah Mueller, 8–is in the high-risk group of people in danger from the novel respiratory disease. In an affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, she said the government never asked her about her ability to travel for the execution.
“If I were to go now I would have to violate my doctor’s orders to make the trip,” she wrote. “[Son Paul Branch] and I would have to travel by car across four states to Terre Haute to the prison there. We would have to stop at least every two hours so I could walk because of my congestive heart failure.”
It was a tough decision for Peterson, but she has said she doesn’t want Lee put to death.
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