Murderer executed in US despite dementia claims

Wesley Ira Purkey, of Kansas, was pronounced dead at 8:19 am at Terre Haute prison, the Justice Department said. Purkey was convicted in 2003 of the 1998 rape, murder and dismemberment of 16-year-old Jennifer Long. He was also found guilty of beating an 80-year-old woman to death with a hammer.

Purkey was the second federal inmate to be executed this week after President Donald Trump ordered a resumption of federal executions after a 17-year hiatus. Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, a former white supremacist convicted of the 1996 murders of a family of three, was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday.

A US District Court judge ordered the execution halted so Purkey could undergo a mental competency hearing and the order was upheld by a US Court of Appeals. Another federal inmate, Dustin Lee Honken, 52, is to be executed on Friday for five murders including those of two girls aged 10 and six. The death penalty was reinstated on the federal level in 1988 but had been used on only three occasions before the executions of Lee and Purkey -- the last time in 2003.

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