A $6,300 Bus. A $33 Last Meal. What New Documents Tell Us About Trump’s Execution Spree Feds spent millions to restart the death penalty and in the process revealed much about how they do it. An officer outside the the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the federal government was preparing to execute Daniel Lewis Lee in July 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images The death penalty is in flux. These are the stories that you need to know about capital punishment's past, as well as its uncertain future. When Scott Mueller drove to Indiana in July to see Daniel Lewis Lee die, he stayed at a Holiday Inn. The hotel was nice enough, and only a 10-minute drive from the federal execution chamber in Terre Haute where the man who killed Mueller’s father would take his last breath.