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A LOOK AT THE 5 FEDERAL DEATH ROW INMATES FACING EXECUTIONBy Mari Yamaguchi | Associated Press

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades.

At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five inmates being held on death row at USP Terre Haute, a high-security penitentiary in Indiana.

Here’s a look at the inmates who are scheduled to be execut-ed beginning in December.

DANNY LEE: Danny Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, was con-victed in the 1996 deaths of an Arkansas family as part of a plot to set up a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.

Lee and an accomplice, Chevie Kehoe, were convicted of killing gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy Mueller, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, and stealing guns and cash.

Lee’s attorney, Morris Moon, said his client’s case “exem-plifies many of the serious flaws in the federal death penalty system” and that “executing him would be a grave injustice.” Moon says there was more evidence against Kehoe — described by federal prosecutors at the time as the leader of the plot — but he received a life sentence.

Lee was convicted in 1999 in Arkansas. A federal judge

denied Lee’s request for a new trial in February , but noted that evidence presented by his attorneys “is reasonably likely” to have led to a different sentence.

He is the first inmate scheduled to be executed, on Dec. 9.

LEZMOND MITCHELL: Lezmond Mitchell, a Navajo man, stabbed a 63-year-old woman to death in 2003 and then forced her 9-year-old granddaughter to sit beside her grandmother’s lifeless body as he drove about 40 miles, before he slit the young girl’s throat.

Their beheaded, mutilated bodies were found in a shallow grave on the reservation. Mitchell stole the woman’s car and later robbed a trading post in Red Valley, Arizona.

He’s scheduled to be executed two days after Lee.

WESLEY IRA PURKEY: The Bureau of Prisons plans to execute Wesley Ira Purkey on Dec. 13. He was convicted of rap-ing and killing a 16-year-old girl before dismembering, burning and then dumping the teen’s body in a septic pond.

Prosecutors said he was also convicted in a state court in Kansas after using a claw hammer to kill an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio.

Purkey, who is from Kansas, is slated to be executed on Dec. 13.

ALFRED BOURGEOIS: Prosecutors say Alfred Bourgeois tortured, sexually molested, and then beat his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to death. Court records say Bourgeois repeat-edly beat the young girl and punched her in the face, whipped her with an electrical cord and beat her with a belt so hard that it broke. He also allegedly burned her feet with a cigarette lighter and hit her in the head with a baseball bat until her head swelled.

He was convicted in 2004 of several charges, including mur-der, and was sentenced to death. He’s scheduled to be executed on Jan. 13.

DUSTIN LEE HONKEN: Dustin Lee Honken was con-victed in 2004 in connection with the killings of five people as part of a plan to thwart a federal investigation into his drug operation.

The victims included two men who became informants and were going to testify against him, the girlfriend of one of the informants and her two young daughters, ages six and 10.

Honken was convicted in federal court in Iowa in 2004 and is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 15.

FATHER: CANADIAN MANHUNT WILL END IN SON’S DEATHBy Rob Gillies | Associated Press

The father of one of the suspects in the slaying of an American woman, her Australian boy-friend and another man said Wednesday he expects a nationwide manhunt to end in the death of his son, who is on “a suicide mission.”

The grim prediction came as Canadian police said they were setting up roadblocks around the remote Manitoba town of Gillam, where two young suspects, 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky, recently left a burned-out vehicle they had been traveling in.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Julie Courchaine said police “are coming from all over” to Gillam, which is more than 2,000 miles away from a region in northern British Columbia where another burned vehicle was found Friday and where the three people were apparently killed.

The victims have been identified as Ameri-can Chynna Deese, 24, Australian Lucas Fowl-er, 23, and Leonard Dyck, 64, of Vancouver. Police released Dyck’s name late Wednesday and announced that McLeod and Schmegel-sky have been charged with second-degree murder in his death.

McLeod and Schmegelsky themselves were originally considered missing persons and only became suspects in the case Tuesday. Officers across the country were searching for the young men.

Schmegelsky’s father, Alan Schmegelsky, said Wednesday that his son had a troubled upbringing and is in “very serious pain.” His son struggled through his parents’ acrimoni-ous split in 2005 and his main influences became video games and YouTube, the father said.

“A normal child doesn’t travel across the country killing people. A child in some very serious pain does,” Alan Schmegelsky told Canadian Press. He said he expects his son will die in a confrontation with police.

“He’s on a suicide mission. He wants his pain to end,” the father said, breaking into tears. “Basically, he’s going to be dead today or tomorrow. I know that. Rest in peace, Bryer. I love you. I’m so sorry all this had to happen.”

Even if his son is caught, his life will be

over, he said. “He wants his hurt to end. They’re going to go out in a blaze of glory. Trust me on this.”

The father said he and his wife separated when their son was 5. She moved with the boy to the small Vancouver Island community of Port Alberni, where he met McLeod. They attended the same elementary school and quickly became inseparable best friends.

They were “everyday, good kids” who didn’t get into trouble, but his son had problems at home and, at 16, briefly moved to Victoria to live with him, Alan Schmegelsky said. The boy then returned to Port Alberni to live with his grandmother.

His son doesn’t own any firearms and doesn’t know how to drive, Alan Schmegelsky said. He worked at the Port Alberni Walmart after graduating from high school earlier this year, but was disappointed with the job and told his dad he was setting off to Alberta with McLeod to look for work.

The father recalled that his son bought a nice black suit with his second paycheck from Walmart.

“Now I realize it’s his funeral suit,” he said.In Port Alberni, signs with “No Trespass-

ing” were staked outside McLeod’s large water-front family home. His father, Keith McLeod, released a written statement.

“This is what I do know — Kam is a kind, considerate, caring young man (who) always has been concerned about other people’s feel-ings,” McLeod said.

“As we are trapped in our homes due to media people, we try to wrap our heads around what is happening and hope that Kam will come home to us safely so we can all get to the bottom of this story.”

The separate discoveries of three bodies and a burning car have shaken rural northern British Columbia.

During the investigation, police found the body of what was then an unidentified man roughly a mile (about 2 kilometers) from a burned out car.

That was about 300 miles (500 kilometers) from the spot along the Alaska Highway near Liard Hot Springs where Deese and Fowler

were found shot dead over a week ago.Fowler, the son of a chief inspector with

the New South Wales Police Department, was living in British Columbia and Deese was visiting him.

The couple had met at a hostel in Croatia and their romance blossomed as they adven-tured across the U.S., Mexico, Peru and else-where, said British Deese, the woman’s older brother.

British Deese said the couple was on a trip to visit Canadian national parks and said the family believes they must have had engine trouble in their van.

Dyck’s family said in a statement late Wednesday: “We are truly heart broken by the sudden and tragic loss of Len. He was a loving husband and father. His death has cre-ated unthinkable grief and we are struggling to understand what has happened.”

Police said Tuesday that McLeod and Schmegelsky were traveling in northern Sas-katchewan in a grey 2011 Toyota Rav 4, which was the car later found burned in Gillam.

Residents of Gillam were locking their doors and cars.

But Deputy Mayor John McDonald said if McLeod and Schmegelsky were wandering around in the bush, they couldn’t have picked a worse time.

“The sandflies came out three days ago and they’re just voracious,” he said. “I’m quite sure they’ll be more than happy to have someone find them.”

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