Jeffrey Lee (Video); Re release, How a Jury’s Life Sentence Was Overridden by a Single Judge — A Shocking Practice

In an unusual move for us we are re releasing this podcast. The reasons are clear if you read on, Please circulate to all friends and contacts. Jeffrey Lee remains alive and on death row at Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama, as of 30th June 2026.. Here is the latest update from his legal team received yesterday. “On the evening of June 11, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a reported 6–3 vote, denied Alabama's emergency request to lift the injunction and block its planned nitrogen-gas execution of Mr. Lee, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch noting their dissent. The denial upheld lower-court rulings that found the nitrogen protocol violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, effectively sparing Mr. Lee from that specific method. On June 12, the day after the stay, Attorney General Steve Marshall's office filed in the Alabama Supreme Court a new motion seeking another execution date for Mr. Lee, this time by lethal injection rather than the firing squad he had proposed. In that filing, state lawyers argued the Department of Corrections "has not been barred from executing Lee, only from executing him by nitrogen hypoxia." The next procedural step is for Mr. Lee's attorneys to respond to the request at the Alabama Supreme Court, which must authorize any new death warrant. As of late June, the execution has not been rescheduled, and Mr. Lee remains on death row at Holman Correctional Facility while his clemency request based on the now-abolished judicial override stays pending before Governor Kay Ivey.”   Click the links here to sign the petition and phone the state Governor Life for Jeffery Lee — Learn more about Jeffrey Lee’s story and how to help https://www.lifeforjefferylee.com/action   PETITION   Here is some additional background. It is a difficult read; The US Supreme Court denied Alabama’s request to execute a man using nitrogen gas late Thursday after two lower court rulings blocked the method and found it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The state had filed for an emergency order just hours ahead of the execution of Jeffery Lee, 49, scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday local time. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch noted their dissent and would have granted the state’s request to overturn the lower courts. Lee, who was convicted of murdering two people in a 1998 pawnshop robbery, is effectively spared from being put to death via nitrogen, but the state can still try other methods, and it’s unclear how quickly it would seek viable alternatives. “Tonight’s ruling is a miscarriage of justice, not for us, but for Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson, who Jeffery Lee brutally and senselessly murdered,” Attorney General Steve Marshall said. “I want their families to know that we will never stop seeking justice for Jimmy and Elaine.” Jeffery Lee.Alabama Dept. of Corrections Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement that the state can still reschedule Lee’s execution. “While I am disappointed the Supreme Court did not allow the state to proceed with Lee’s chosen method of execution, I remain committed to ensuring that justice is ultimately served for his victims,” Ivey said, noting that Lee elected nitrogen over lethal injection in 2018, years before the state had developed a nitrogen protocol. Last year, Lee filed a legal challenge to the nitrogen protocol, and instead asked to die by firing squad, a method not legal in Alabama. Whether or not the state could execute Lee, who has been on death row for more than 25 years, by nitrogen gas was the question at the heart of his litigation that came to a head this week. On Monday, a federal district judge in Alabama initially found the method was constitutional. Lee’s legal team appealed, and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the opinion, saying nitrogen executions most likely violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and ordered the district court to r