The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to overrule a federal judge’s order that blocked Alabama from executing an inmate accused of murder with nitrogen gas.
Jeffery Lee was set to be executed at 6 p.m. Thursday local time under Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia protocol, but the state chose not to proceed with the execution until the Supreme Court intervened.
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