Wesley Ira Purkey Executed In Second Federal Execution Since 2003

The second federal execution in almost two decades took place on July 16, 2020, just days after Daniel Lewis Lee was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital. Wesley Ira Purkey was convicted for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in 2003, and was declared dead just after 8 a.m. at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.