The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week following a hiatus of nearly two decades, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed.

A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man, said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the governments second execution this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute.

The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee came over the objection of the victims relatives and following days of legal wrangling and delays.

A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana.

An inmate at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute who had COVID-19 has died, and three others there also have tested positive for the disease, the Bureau of Prisons said Tuesday.

Indiana is officially getting a new casino in Terre Haute. The state Gaming Commission approved the facility Friday, set to open in September 2021.

The department says 23-year-old Sgt. Christopher Wesley Curry, of Terre Haute, Indiana, died from a non-combat-related incident Monday in Iraq.

A Catholic priest in Terre Haute has stopped hearing drive-through confessions at the request of the Indianapolis Archdiocese amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Indiana Gaming Commission said Friday it was investigating information it received Thursday about Indianapolis-based Spectacle Entertainment.

The 46,000-square-foot facility will combine currently separate primary care and mental health clinics in Terre Haute.