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Man convicted in Ark. family's death gets hearing

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A judge is scheduled to hear a request later this month to overturn the federal death sentence handed down to an Oklahoma man convicted of killing an Arkansas family in 1996 as part of a conspiracy to overthrow the federal government and create a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.

Danny Lee, of Yukon, Okla., was convicted of murder in the aid of racketeering and was sentenced to death for the killings of Pope County gun dealer Bill Mueller, his wife, Nancy Mueller and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.

Prosecutors alleged that Lee and co-defendant Chevie Kehoe stole guns and $50,000 in cash from the Muellers' home, then used a stun gun on the three victims, placed plastic trash bags over their heads and sealed the bags with duct tape to suffocate them.

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