A #jury voted for Jeffery Lee to receive a life sentence. The #State of #Alabama plans to execute him anyway

The concept of #JudicialOverride exposes a “disconnect” between today’s laws & the standards for how people were sentenced to death in the past, said Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

[*edited because headline misleading. It implies the state overrode the jury, but it was the judge 30 yrs ago]

#law #judiciary #DeathPenalty
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/us/jeffery-lee-trial-alabama-execution