Alabama death row inmate who stopped gas execution wants to stop lethal injection execution

By: Ralph Chapoco

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: July 15, 2026

Words: 700

Last Updated: 6 days, 15 hours ago

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Attorneys for an Alabama death row inmate who successfully challenged Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol last month have asked a federal judge to prevent the state from using a different execution method to put him to death.

In the July 7 filing, attorneys for Jeffrey Lee asked the U.S. District Court Judge Emily Marks to expand an injunction against nitrogen gas to lethal injection and electrocution, the state’s two other statutory methods of capital punishment. …

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