Breaking News: Federal inmate claims death penalty would violate sovereignty of Navajo Nation - News Paper

Attorneys for the only Native American man on death row, who is among the five men scheduled for the first federal executions since 2003, have said that his death would be a violation of tribal sovereignty.  Lezmond Charles Mitchell, 37, is set to be executed on December 11 for the 2001 murders of Alyce Slim, 63, and her nine-year-old granddaughter Tiffany Lee on Navajo reservation land in

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Breaking News: Federal inmate claims death penalty would violate sovereignty of Navajo Nation - News Paper