The United States government has carried out the first federal execution in 17 years after a late-night Supreme Court decision gave the go-ahead.
Daniel Lewis Lee died by lethal injection at a Federal prison in Indiana on Tuesday morning.
The Oklahoma man received the death sentence over the murders of a family in 1996 as part of a plot to build a whites-only nation in America's North West. The execution took place despite objections from civil rights groups, and family members of Lee's victims.
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