White Supremacist With Wash. Ties First For Federal Execution

SPOKANE, WA — One of the five men set to executed by the federal government this winter is a former Pacific Northwest white supremacist who once set off a bomb in Spokane. U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Thursday that the federal government would resume executing death-row inmates for the first time since 2003.

Danny Lewis Lee, 46, is set to die by lethal injection on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Lee was convicted in 1999 of murdering gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, and their 6-year-old daughter in Arkansas.

According to the Spokesman Review, Lee was also the prime suspect in a 1996 bombing of Spokane City Hall. The bomb did not injure anyone, but did damage the building.

When Lee lived in Spokane, he was known as "Cyclops" after he lost an eye in a Spokane bar fight. He was a member of a white supremacist group that was trying to establish a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.

The other men set to be executed in December and January include: Wesley Ira Purkey, who murdered a 16-year-old girl and an 80-year-old woman; Lezmond Mitchell, who murdered a 63-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter on a reservation in Arizona; Alfred Bourgeois, who tortured and killed a 2-1/2-year-old girl; and Dustin Lee Honken, a drug dealer who murdered five people, including two young girls.