TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A U.S. district judge has ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana.
The administration is certain to ask a higher court to allow the executions to move forward.
The executions, pushed by the Trump administration, would be the first carried out at the federal level since 2003.
The new hold on executions came a day after a federal appeals court lifted a hold on the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, which is scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT on Monday.
