
First Federal Execution in Decades Stalled by Last-Minute Legal Wrangling
Obama-appointed judge gives convicted child killer, white supremacist reprieve

Federal district court judge Jane Magnus-Stinson on Friday evening temporarily halted the execution of white supremacist Daniel Lewis Lee, whose execution on Monday would have been the first federal death sentence carried out since 2003.
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate the federal death penalty.