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Alabama to proceed with Jeffery Lee's execution despite jury decision
Jeffery Lee, sentenced to death in Alabama despite a jury vote for life in prison for a 1998 double-murder, faces execution by nitrogen gas after a judge overturned the jury’s recommendation using the now-abolished practice of judicial override. Lee's legal team has petitioned for clemency and challenged the constitutionality of his execution method, but the governor plans to proceed. His case highlights issues with Alabama’s historic use of judicial override, which allowed judges to impose death sentences against jury recommendations before being eliminated in 2017.
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