Set To Die By Gas in 2 Days, Alabama Inmate Pleads to be Shot Instead

49-year-old Alabama death row inmate and convicted double murderer, Jeffrey Lee is set to die by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Lee filed an appeal for a stay of execution, citing several witness accounts of suffering by at least four other inmates who died by the same method. While the court agreed the method is cruel, it sent Lee’s case to a lower court to determine whether Lee could die by firing squad instead of nitrogen gas. There’s another twist to this story, however, the jury that convicted Lee recommended life in prison, not the death penalty and his lawyers are arguing the jury’s decision should be honored.”

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