After 17 years without a federal execution, the US executed the third prisoner in a week, a drug kingpin who killed five people in 1993
Honken was pronounced dead at 4:36 p.m., the Bureau of Prisons said. Honken was sentenced to death in October 2005 for shooting and killing five people in July 1993 in an attempt to hide his multistate methamphetamine drug dealing operation.Daniel Lewis Lee was executed Tuesday morning and Wesley Ira Purkey was executed Thursday morning, both in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Justice Department restarted executions for the first time since 2003.
"US District Judge Leonard Strand on Tuesday denied Honken's request to delay his execution because of the coronavirus pandemic. Strand also denied Honken's motion to declare his execution void and said the Bureau of Prisons has authority in implementing the execution and setting the date.Cardinal Joseph W.
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