Daniel Lewis Lee

Daniel Lewis Lee (January 31, 1973 – July 14, 2020) was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and convicted felon.

Lee was born on January 31, 1973, in Yukon, Oklahoma.

He was reportedly abused and neglected as a child.

Lee had previously served prison time for assisting his cousin in the 1990 murder of Joey Wavra.

On July 24, 1990, in Oklahoma City, Lee got into an altercation with another man, Joseph "Joey" Wavra III, at a party.

Lee struck Wavra in the face and kicked him on the floor once he had collapsed.

He then assisted his cousin, John David Patton, in moving Wavra to a sewer tunnel.

Lee took items from Wavra and handed Patton a knife which Patton used to kill him.

Lee then assisted in disposing of Wavra's clothes.

On December 2, 1990, Lee pleaded guilty to robbery, whereupon the murder charge was dismissed.

He received a five-year suspended sentence for his involvement in the crime, while Patton was sentenced to life without parole.

Lee met white supremacist Chevie Kehoe in 1995 and was recruited into a white supremacist organization known as the Aryan Peoples' Republic or the Aryan Peoples' Resistance (APR).

On May 3, 1995, Lee was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and was sentenced to six months probation.

Kehoe and his father had robbed Mueller in February 1995, and Kehoe expected to find valuable property at the house.

Dressed in police raid clothing, Lee and Kehoe tried to enter Mueller's home, but the family was not in.

When they returned, Lee and Kehoe overpowered and incapacitated Mueller and his wife, Nancy Ann Mueller (née Branch).

They then questioned Nancy Mueller's 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Powell, about where they could find the cash, guns, and ammunition, forcing her to talk by shocking her with an electric cattle prod.

After finding $50,000 in cash and gold, and $30,000 worth of firearms and firearm parts, they shot each of the three victims with a stun gun.

They then placed plastic bags over their heads and sealed the bags with duct tape, suffocating them to death.

They took the victims in Kehoe's vehicle to the Illinois Bayou river, 45 miles away, where they taped rocks to them and threw each family member into the swamp.

Lee received $3,000 or $4,000 and a pistol for his part in the crime.

Lee lost his left eye sometime before April 1996 when he was hit by a cue ball in a bar fight in Spokane, Washington, after he called a Native American a racial slur.

He refused to wear an eyepatch and among his neo-Nazi skinhead friends gained a nickname Cy, short for Cyclops.

In January 1996, Lee and Kehoe left the state of Washington and traveled to Arkansas.

On January 11, 1996, they arrived at the home of William Frederick Mueller, a gun dealer who lived near Tilly, Arkansas, who possessed a large collection of weapons, ammunition, and cash.

The bodies were discovered in Lake Dardanelle near Russellville, Arkansas, in late June 1996.

Kehoe and his family took the stolen property to a motel in Spokane, Washington, by way of the Christian Identity community of Elohim City, Oklahoma.

On June 17, 1997, Kehoe was arrested in Cedar City, Utah.

The Mueller family murders were a federal crime since they had been committed to support a racketeering enterprise.

Prosecutors sought death sentences for both Kehoe and Lee.

When Kehoe was sentenced to life imprisonment, federal prosecutors initially planned to pursue a similar sentence of life imprisonment for accomplice Daniel Lewis Lee, but were directed by the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., to argue for a death sentence.

U.S. Attorney Paula Casey requested U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno withdraw jeopardy of capital punishment but was told by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to continue seeking a death sentence.

In 1999, Lee was convicted as an accomplice to Chevie Kehoe in the 1996 murders of William Frederick Mueller, Nancy Ann Mueller, and their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Powell, during a robbery at their Arkansas home.

The murders were committed as part of a plot to establish a white ethnostate.

While Kehoe was found guilty of the triple murder in a separate trial and was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment without parole, Lee was sentenced to death.

After another short delay, he was executed at 8:07 a.m. He was the first person executed by the US federal government since 2003.

Patton died in prison on January 7, 2014.

Upon conviction by the US federal government, Lee stayed on death row for 21 years before he was scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020, but on that date, a U.S. district judge blocked the execution, citing unresolved legal issues.

Thereafter, on July 14, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the execution could proceed.

It was scheduled for 4:00 a.m. that same day.