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Cotton Statement on Supreme Court Decision Allowing Federal Executions

Statement

Date: June 29, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Criminal Justice

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging the resumption of federal executions:

"Daniel Lewis Lee is a white supremacist responsible for the heinous slaying of an entire family in Arkansas, including an 8-year-old girl. Twenty years after a jury imposed the death penalty for these crimes, the Supreme Court has rightly allowed justice to proceed."


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