Death Row Inmate Jeffrey Lee Lives To See Another Day, But For How Long?
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court of the United States denied the state of Alabama’s request to execute 49-year-old Jeffrey Lee using nitrogen gas, agreeing with two lower courts that said it was cruel and unusual and therefore, unconstitutional. The late night decision, effectively halted Lee’s scheduled execution, but only temporarily. While Lee’s legal team declared it a victory, the state’s attorney general called it a miscarriage of justice and said Alabama is “prepared to do whatever is necessary to see Mr. Lee’s lawful sentence carried out.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Friday, June 12th, and a man that was supposed to be executed last night |
| 0:12.3 | is living another day. He might have another two, three, four. He might have, who knows how |
| 0:19.8 | long after the Supreme Court stepped in and kept |
| 0:23.3 | the state of Alabama from executing Jeffrey Lee. And with that, welcome to this episode of |
| 0:28.6 | Amy and TJ. When we hear Supreme, we don't hear Supreme Court stepping into executions that |
| 0:33.4 | often. They stepped in, but not quite to stop it. |
| 0:38.1 | No, they just stopped the method of execution. And look, this was a big deal. This was down to |
| 0:44.2 | the last minute. In fact, look, the state of Alabama had until 6 a.m., I believe, on Friday, |
| 0:51.0 | today to execute Jeffrey Lee with the death warrant. So they actually sent their |
| 0:55.5 | attorney general and his staff up to D.C. to make these arguments to the Supreme Court. They |
| 1:01.1 | wanted the Supreme Court to overturn two lower courts that this week said that the method of |
| 1:08.2 | execution, nitrogen gas, was cruel and unusual and therefore likely |
| 1:12.2 | unconstitutional. And they barred the state of Alabama from executing death row inmate Jeffrey |
| 1:19.5 | Lee by using that method. They didn't stop the execution. They just stopped how he was going to be |
| 1:26.1 | executed. And Alabama wanted the Supreme Court to say, you can go ahead. |
| 1:31.8 | They didn't make their decision until 8, 10 p.m. last night. |
| 1:37.6 | The execution was scheduled for 6 p.m. |
| 1:39.6 | So they were waiting, literally waiting for word, on whether or not they could go through with this thing. |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, Alabama seemed to put all of their execution eggs in the same basket. They didn't have a |
| 1:50.7 | backup plan. It doesn't seem like robes. They were prepared. And maybe you can. Maybe it's |
| 1:54.6 | impossible to have two methods prepared. But they weren't ready with lethal injection, which is something they've been shying away from, actually. |
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