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IT was just hours after Donald Trump won his battle to resume federal executions following a two-decade gap that the first death row inmate was belted to a gurney.

Daniel Lewis Lee’s execution had been set for 4am on Tuesday morning – just enough time to wake him and march him to the death chamber after Supreme Court judges gave the go-ahead at 2am.

But it was delayed by a last-minute legal question from his lawyers, during which time he stayed strapped to the chair for four hours awaiting his fate.

The 47-year-old white supremacist was finally pronounced dead at 8.07am.

A similar fate now awaits convicts Wesley Purkey and Dustin Honken.

One-eyed Lee had been convicted of killing a family of three, including an eight-yearold girl, using bin bags and duct tape to suffocate his victims. He claimed the courts had ignored DNA evidence that proved his innocence.

His attorney Ruth