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Lezmond Mitchell is the fourth federal inmate to have been executed this summer

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The Federal Government Killed a Navajo Man Just to Prove It Could

The execution of Lezmond Mitchell, a Diné citizen, was a long, grisly test case about tribal sovereignty.

"Slightly complicating matters is the fact that members of the Slim family recently issued a statement supporting the execution of Mitchell—initially, court filings revealed that the daughter of Slim and mother of the child “passionately” argued against the death penalty. But as Navajo Nation Council delegate Carl Slater told the Navajo Times on Friday, the matter at hand is not one of whether the victims’ family’s wishes are being adhered to in terms of the levied justice but that the nation’s sovereignty was purposefully ignored and diminished by the U.S. “The Navajo Nation never opted in to impose the death penalty,” he told the Times. “It is not the decision of one person or one group of family to make the decision.”

Cases like these—ones that are extremely messy, grisly, and entangled in centuries of convoluted federal Indian law—are the kind that are meant to test both the American legal system and America’s commitment to tribal sovereignty. It’s a test that the country routinely, often gleefully, fails. It chose vengeance and violence. It opted for a flashy display of what it has decided to define as justice. And it did so against the express wishes of a sovereign nation. The case of Mitchell now stands as a harbinger of future federal action in Indian Country, should the U.S. federal government continue carrying out death penalty sentences. With Mitchell’s life now stolen by the state, America has tested a new boundary in its historic effort to undermine sovereignty at all turns and at all costs. Now it knows full well how to kill Native people convicted of crimes on tribal lands, sovereignty be damned."

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US To Execute Only Native American On Federal Death Row For Murder Lezmond Mitchell will be executed at the Federal Corrections Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana The United States is set to execute Lezmond Mitchell, a convicted murderer and the only Native American on federal death row, on Wednesday, despite opposition from the Navajo Nation, which says the government is infringing tribal sovereignty.

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US To Execute Only Native American On Federal Death Row For Murder Lezmond Mitchell will be executed at the Federal Corrections Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana The United States is set to execute Lezmond Mitchell, a convicted murderer and the only Native American on federal death row, on Wednesday, despite opposition from the Navajo Nation, which says the government is infringing tribal sovereignty.

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Who is Lezmond Mitchell (Execution date set for death) Bio, Wiki, Age, Family, Net Worth

Who is Lezmond Mitchell (Execution date set for death) Bio, Wiki, Age, Family, Net Worth

Lezmond Mitchell (Execution date set for death) Bio, Lezmond Mitchell Wiki

Lezmond Mitchell, who is Navajo, had been among the first of a handful of inmates set to be put to death after the Trump administration restored federal executions after an informal, 17-year moratorium. Mitchell has been spared temporarily by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals where his attorneys argued they should be…

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