Navajo Nation Asks Trump To Commute Death Sentence Of Native Man Facing Execution
The U.S. government plans to execute Lezmond Mitchell, who killed two people on a Navajo reservation. Tribal leaders, citing Navajo beliefs that life is sacred, don't want him to be executed.
As the U.S. government prepares to execute Lezmond Mitchell, the only Native American man on federal death row, the leaders of the Navajo Nation have asked President Trump to reduce Mitchell's sentence to life imprisonment.
"We strongly hold to our cultural, traditional, and religious beliefs that life is sacred,"in a recent letter.
