{"id":575,"date":"2026-06-12T23:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:52:07","slug":"alabama-seeks-to-execute-man-by-lethal-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Alabama seeks to execute man by lethal injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">MONTGOMERY, Ala. &#8212; <\/span>Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/execution-alabama-nitrogen-d5b019f8837f937234bedd341a719354\">prevented from going forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Alabama Attorney General\u2019s office asked the Alabama Supreme Court to authorize a death warrant for Jeffery Lee, this time using <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/execution-nitrogen-methods-lethal-52d43ab3f7da0e4c05144328be656854\">lethal injection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cIn sum, ADOC has not been barred from executing Lee, only from executing him by nitrogen hypoxia,\u201d state lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A spokesman for Lee\u2019s legal team said they did not have an immediate comment on the action. The next step is for his attorneys to respond to the request at the Alabama Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The filing came hours after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall promised to continue fighting to carry out Lee\u2019s death sentence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/alabama-seeks-execute-man-lethal-injection-after-court-133832660\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. &#8212; Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General\u2019s office asked the Alabama Supreme Court to authorize a death warrant for Jeffery Lee, this time using lethal injection. \u201cIn sum, ADOC has not been barred from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}