Judge denies retrial request for federal death row inmate
February 28, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man's new trial request for a 1999 federal murder conviction and death sentence in Arkansas has been denied, with the judge saying he doesn't have jurisdiction while noting that evidence presented by attorneys "is reasonably likely" to have led to a different sentence.
Danny Lee, 46, of Yukon, was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1996 deaths of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy Mueller and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, of Russellville and stealing guns and cash in a plot to establish a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.
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