Alabama set to execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection after nitrogen execution is blocked
- A rare move by the Supreme Court prevented Alabama from executing prisoner Jeffery Lee with nitrogen gas in June.
- But if Lee believed the surprise ruling would afford him a reprieve from the execution chamber, he was wrong.
- Alabama intends to put him to death Thursday evening by another method, lethal injection, after the Supreme Court earlier denied his request to intervene as it had before.
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- A rare move by the Supreme Court prevented Alabama from executing prisoner Jeffery Lee with nitrogen gas in June.
- But if Lee believed the surprise ruling would afford him a reprieve from the execution chamber, he was wrong.
- Alabama intends to put him to death Thursday evening by another method, lethal injection, after the Supreme Court earlier denied his request to intervene as it had before.
Sources: NBC News