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Alabama Plans Nitrogen Gas Execution for Jeffery Lee Despite Jury Life Vote
Lee faces nitrogen gas execution after Alabama says 27 inmates remain on death row under the abolished judicial override practice.
- On Thursday, Alabama plans to execute Jeffery Lee by nitrogen gas despite a jury's 7-5 vote for life imprisonment in his 1998 trial for the murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson.
- A trial judge overturned the jury's verdict using judicial override, a now-abolished practice that allowed judges to impose death sentences against jury recommendations; Alabama repealed it in 2017 for future cases.
- Citing the "hopes and dreams" of victims Ellis and Thompson, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall called Monday for the execution to proceed, while Lee remains one of 27 facing death due to override.
- Defense attorney MiAngel Cody urged Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to "finish the work she started" by retroactively dismantling judicial override, but Ivey's office confirmed she plans to move forward with the execution.
- Lee has become deeply religious and held leadership roles in prison, while Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, argues judicial override exposes a "disconnect" between today's laws and past sentencing standards.
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The Alabama jury at Jeffery Lee's trial spent several days listening to the evidence and discussing whether he should live or die.
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