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Iowa meth kingpin is 3rd executed by US government this week

by Associated Press
| July 19, 2020 12:03 AM

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday put to death an Iowa chemistry student-turned-meth kingpin convicted of killing five people, capping a week in which the Trump administration restored federal executions after a 17-year hiatus.

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