Impending Execution of Native American Stirs Emotion Within Tribe

This undated family photo provided by Auska Mitchell shows Lezmond Mitchell, who is scheduled to be executed at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., for the 2001 killing of Alyce Slim and her granddaughter, on Aug. 26, 2020. Courtesy Auska Mitchell via AP

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—Late on a fall evening in 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter stopped at a gas station on the Navajo Nation after searching for a traditional healer for leg ailments.

There, in an area where hitchhiking is common, Slim agreed to give two males a ride. They got into her pewter-colored pickup truck and when she stopped later to let them out, they didn’t budge.