Alabama executes Jeffery Lee by lethal injection

By: Ralph Chapoco

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: September 18, 2026

Words: 866

Last Updated: 17 hours, 7 minutes ago

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The state of Alabama executed Jeffery Lee, 49, Thursday for the murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson during a pawn shop robbery in Orrville in 1998.

Lee was executed by lethal injection just over two months after a federal district court rebuffed Alabama’s attempt to put him to death by nitrogen gas, and after an unsuccessful campaign for clemency by death penalty opponents, who said a jury’s initial recommendation of sentencing Lee to …

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