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(CNN) — Daniel Lewis Lee was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday morning in Terre Haute, Indiana, making Lee the first federal prisoner executed in more than 17 years. He was pronounced dead by the coroner at 8:07 am
According to a report, Lee’s final statement was, in part, “I didn’t. I have made many mistakes in my life but I am not a murderer. “
“You are killing an innocent man,” he said.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the renewal of the federal death penalty in an unsigned order issued after 2 am ET on Tuesday.
Lee was once a white supremacist who killed a family of three, including an 8-year-old girl, in 1996.
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