US government executes only Native American on death row, despite calls from tribal leaders to the President for clemency

Tribal leaders and attorneys for Lezmond Mitchell held out hope until the end that President Donald Trump would step in to stop his execution, but at 6:29 p.m. Wednesday, Mitchell became the fourth federal inmate executed this summer, and by his attorneys' account, the first Native American since the resumption of the federal death penalty in 1994.

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