In their clemency petition, Lee’s defense team asked Ivey “to finish the work she started,” and dismantle #JudicialOverride retroactively, Cody said. A bill now making its way through the #Alabama legislature also seeks to resentence defendants in capital murder cases who were sentenced to death through judicial override.
Thank goodness.
#SCOTUS Blocks #Alabama From Executing Inmate Using #NitrogenGas
The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, & could lead to a broader fight over the relatively new execution method.
#law #JudicialOverride #DeathPenalty #ObsoleteLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/supreme-court-blocks-alabama-nitrogen-execution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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