A judge has blocked the first federal execution in 17 years over concerns regarding the CCP virus from the family members of the victims of Daniel Lee. The Justice Department plans to appeal the ruling.
Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1996 killings, by him and a co-conspirator, of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.
