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A former white supremacist convicted of murdering a family of three in 1996 was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday in the first federal execution in the United States in 17 years, the Justice Department said.
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, was pronounced dead at 8:07 am (local time) at Terre Haute prison in Indiana, the department said in a statement.
Lee is the first of three federal inmates scheduled to be executed this week.
Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, and another man were convicted of murdering the Arkansas family during a robbery intended to help fund the founding of an "Aryan Peoples Republic."