A federal judge in the DC District Court put a hold on all federal executions, blocking the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, the first scheduled federal execution that would happen in 17 years. The move was immediately appealed by the Trump Administration.
This morning, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan stated that there were multiple legal issues that still remained and that “the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process.”
Lee was scheduled to be executed at 4 p.m. ET today at federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana for the 1996 murders of three people, including an 8-year-old girl. His execution would have been the first in the federal prison system since 2003.