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Alabama Plans Inmate’s Execution After Supreme Court Blocked Last Attempt

The state will try again to execute Jeffery Lee — this time, by lethal injection — after courts said doing so using nitrogen gas was “likely unconstitutional.”

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Alabama’s lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., around 2002.
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Alabama Plans Inmate’s Execution After Supreme Court Blocked Last Attempt

The state will try again to execute Jeffery Lee — this time, by lethal injection — after courts said doing so using nitrogen gas was “likely unconstitutional.”

© Dave Martin/Associated Press

Alabama’s lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., around 2002.
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Florida Executes 2 Men Within Hours of Each Other

Both men had been convicted of murder in the 1980s. One had maintained his innocence, while the other became the second octogenarian to be put to death in the U.S. in the last 50 years.

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The state is carrying out both executions at Florida State Prison in north-central Florida.
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