Daniel Lewis Lee

Daniel Lewis Lee
Born(1973-01-31)January 31, 1973
DiedJuly 14, 2020(2020-07-14) (aged 47)
Cause of deathExecution by lethal injection
Other namesDanny Lee
Daniel Lewis Graham
D L Graham
MotiveCreating a white ethnostate
Conviction(s)Murder in aid of racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1959) (3 counts)
Racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1962)
Conspiracy to commit racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1962)
Robbery
Carrying a concealed weapon
Criminal penaltyDeath (May 4, 1999)
Partner(s)John David Patton (1 murder)
Chevie Kehoe (3 murders)
Details
Victims4
DateJuly 24, 1990
January 11, 1996
CountryUnited States
State(s)Oklahoma and Arkansas
Date apprehended
June 17, 1997 (for the final time)

Daniel Lewis Lee (January 31, 1973 – July 14, 2020)[1] was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and convicted felon. In 1999, Lee was convicted as an accomplice to Chevie Kehoe in the 1996 murders of William Frederick Mueller, Nancy Ann Mueller, and their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Powell, during a robbery at their Arkansas home. The murders were committed as part of a plot to establish a white ethnostate. While Kehoe was found guilty of the triple murder in a separate trial and was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment without parole, Lee was sentenced to death. Lee had previously served prison time for assisting his cousin in the 1990 murder of Joey Wavra.

Upon conviction by the US federal government, Lee stayed on death row for 21 years before he was scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020, but on that date, a U.S. district judge blocked the execution, citing unresolved legal issues.[2] Thereafter, on July 14, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the execution could proceed. It was scheduled for 4:00 a.m. that same day.[3] After another short delay, he was executed at 8:07 a.m.[4] He was the first person executed by the US federal government since 2003.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference CNNExecution was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Judge blocks federal executions hours before first lethal injection in 17 years for triple murder". nbcnews.com. NBC News. Associated Press. July 13, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  3. ^ "U.S. Supreme Court allows federal executions to proceed". CNBC. July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  4. ^ "Trump administration carries out first federal execution since 2003 after late-night Supreme Court intervention". Washington Post. July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.

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