New Federal Execution Dates

On June 15, 2020, the Department of Justice announced that Attorney General William Barr had directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule execution dates for four federal death row inmates.  Daniel Lewis Lee is now scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020.  Wesley Ira Purkey is scheduled to be executed on July 15, 2020.  Dustin Lee Honken is scheduled to be executed on July 17, 2020.  Keith Dwayne Nelson is scheduled to be executed on August 28, 2020.  The executions are to take place at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.