(CNN) The US government on Friday executed Dustin Lee Honken, the third federal inmate to receive the death penalty this week after the punishment was revived by the Trump administration following a 17-year hiatus. Honken converted to Catholicism while in prison and his attorney, Shawn Nolan, said in a statement Friday that his client had atoned for his crimes. He recognized and repented for the crimes he had committed, and spent his time in prison atoning for them," Nolan said. US District Judge Leonard Strand on Tuesday denied Honken's request to delay his execution because of the coronavirus pandemic. Strand also denied Honken's motion to declare his execution void and said the Bureau of Prisons has authority in implementing the execution and setting the date.

Source: CNN July 17, 2020 21:18 UTC