Alabama set to execute man for pawnshop murders months after judge blocked his nitrogen gas execution

Alabama is scheduled to execute Jeffery Lee, 49, by lethal injection for two 1998 pawnshop murders. The execution follows a Supreme Court denial of his stay request. A judge had previously blocked a plan to use nitrogen gas for his execution.
Alabama is set to execute Jeffery Lee, 49, by lethal injection for two 1998 pawnshop murders after the Supreme Court denied his request for a stay.
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