On Monday, Jeffery Lee’s attorneys said Alabama shouldn’t be allowed to execute him via lethal injection as a backup plan after the federal courts said the state couldn’t use nitrogen in the same way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeffrey Lee, 49, who was convicted of the murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson during a pawn shop robbery in 1998, is ...

Jeffery Lee had raised concerns about use of nitrogen gas and the legacy of an abandoned practice that allowed judges to override juries on death sentences.

Alabama executed the convicted killer of a famous Elvis Presley impersonator by lethal injection on Thursday, three months after a judge's ruling blocked the state from putting him to death with ...