Federal judge allows Alabama nitrogen gas execution to go forward

By: Ralph Chapoco

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: June 2, 2026

Words: 640

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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A federal district court Friday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to delay his scheduled June 11 execution, saying the pain he could experience was constitutional.

U.S. District Court Judge Emily Marks wrote that Jeffrey Lee, 50, scheduled to be executed for his role in the murder of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson in 1998, failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the ADOC’s nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol causes severe pain …

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